Matthew 16:6

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Jesus said to them, "Be careful and watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

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  • Luke 12:1 : 1 Meanwhile, when thousands of people had gathered together, to the point of trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."
  • Mark 8:15 : 15 Jesus warned them, 'Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.'
  • 1 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
  • Gal 5:9 : 9 A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.
  • 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 Then He said to them, "Watch out, and be on guard against every form of greed, because one’s life is not defined by the abundance of possessions."
  • Exod 12:15-19 : 15 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day, remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a sacred assembly, and on the seventh day also a sacred assembly. No work shall be done on those days, except what each person must eat—that alone may be prepared by you. 17 You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a perpetual ordinance. 18 From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day, you shall eat unleavened bread. 19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether they are a foreigner or a native of the land.
  • Lev 2:11 : 11 Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
  • Matt 16:12 : 12 Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the yeast used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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