1 Corinthians 5:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ καλὸν τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν. Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ;

Transliteration

Not kalon the kauchēma of you. Not oidate that mikra zymē whole the phyrama zymoi?

Grammar Details

*kalon*: nominative, neuter, singular - good/proper/fitting
*kauchēma*: nominative, neuter, singular - boasting/ground for boasting
*oidate*: perfect active, 2nd plural - you know
*mikra*: nominative, feminine, singular - small/little
*zymē*: nominative, feminine, singular - leaven/yeast
*phyrama*: accusative, neuter, singular - lump/mass/batch (of dough)
*zymoi*: present active, 3rd singular - leavens/ferments

Word Meanings

*kalon*: good/proper/fitting/appropriate
*kauchēma*: boasting/ground for boasting/reason for pride
*mikra zymē*: small amount of leaven/little yeast
*phyrama*: lump/mass/batch of dough
*zymoi*: leavens/permeates/affects

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Referenced Verses

Gal 5:9 : 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Jas 4:16 : 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Matt 13:33 : 33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
Matt 16:6-9 : 6 And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We took no bread. 8 And Jesus perceiving it said, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have no bread? 9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 12 Then understood they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
1 Cor 3:21 : 21 Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
1 Cor 4:18-19 : 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.

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