1 Corinthians 5:6

The Scriptures 1998

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump?

Cross References

Hosea 7:4

“All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable He spoke to them, “The reign of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until all was leavened.”

Luke 13:21

“It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened.”

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, you are servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

1 Corinthians 3:21

So then, let no one boast in men, for all belongs to you,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you have been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he who has done this deed, be removed from among you!

Galatians 5:9

A little leaven leavens all the lump.

2 Timothy 2:17

and their word shall eat its way like gangrene. Humenaios and Philetos are of this sort,

James 4:16

But now you boast in your proud speeches. All such boasting is wicked.