1 Corinthians 5:6 - Easy To Read Version Your proud boasting is not good. You know the saying, “Just a little yeast {\cf2\super [29]} makes the whole batch of dough rise.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]? American Standard Version (1901) Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Common English Bible Your bragging isn’t good! Don’t you know that a tiny grain of yeast makes a whole batch of dough rise? Catholic Public Domain Version It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? |
A baker presses dough \{to make bread\}.\par \{He puts the bread in the oven.\}\par The baker does not make the fire hotter\par while the bread is rising.\par \{But the people of Israel are not like that.\}\par The people of Israel are always making\par their fire hotter.\par
Then Jesus told the people another story: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough (bread) rise.”
It is like yeast {\cf2\super [242]} that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough (bread) rise.”
Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, or obey God. Sin brings spiritual death. But obeying God makes you right with him.
And still you are proud of yourselves! You should have been filled with sadness. And the man that did that sin should be put out of your group.
\{Be careful!\} “Just a little yeast {\cf2\super [64]} makes the whole batch of dough rise.” {\cf2\super [65]}
Their \{evil\} teaching will spread like a sickness inside the body. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men like that.