Verse 9

A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
• Mark 8:15 : 15 And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
• Luke 12:1 : 1 At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.
• Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.
• 1 Cor 5:6-7 : 6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass? 7 Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
• 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
• Matt 16:6-9 : 6 And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 7 And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread. 8 And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread? 9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 10 Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? 12 Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
• Matt 23:33 : 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?