1 Corinthians 5:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

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  • Gal 5:9 : 9 A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
  • 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.
  • Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.
  • 1 Cor 3:21 : 21 So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours;
  • 1 Cor 4:18-19 : 18 Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

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  • Gal 5:8-10
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    8 This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

    9 A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

    10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

  • 1 Cor 5:7-8
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    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.

    8 Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

  • 1 Cor 5:1-2
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    1 It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

    2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

  • 1 Cor 5:5
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    5 That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

    7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

  • Gal 5:26
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    26 Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29 So that no flesh might have glory before God.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

  • Gal 6:1
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    1 Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-9
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    7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

    8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

    9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

    7 Have no part with such men;

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

    4 But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31 So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.

    6 For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

  • Gal 5:15-16
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    15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

  • Matt 16:11
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    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?

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17 But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

  • Prov 25:27
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    27 It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

  • Matt 16:6
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    6 And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Gal 6:13
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    13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • Rom 6:12
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    12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

  • Exod 12:19
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    19 For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

  • 1 Cor 8:12
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    12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • Rom 2:23
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    23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Exod 12:15
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    15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

  • 1 Tim 3:6
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    6 Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

  • 2 Cor 11:18
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    18 Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.