1 Corinthians 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

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  • Gal 5:9 : 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 He told them still another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.
  • Matt 16:6-9 : 6 Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, He said to them, O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves, because you have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? 11 How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees? 12 Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
  • Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.
  • 1 Cor 3:21 : 21 Therefore let no one boast 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 wills, and I will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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    8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

    9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

    10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will think no other way; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

  • 1 Cor 5:7-8
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    7 Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

    8 Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

  • 1 Cor 5:1-2
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    1 It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife.

    2 And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.

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    16 But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

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    5 Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

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    6 And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

    7 For who makes you different from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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    26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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    29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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    15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

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    19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

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  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

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    12 For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

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    7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

    8 No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.

    9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

    7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

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    3 For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

    4 But let every man examine his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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    5 Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.

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    15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another.

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    11 How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?

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    9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

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    6 Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

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    13 For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

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    12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts.

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    16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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    15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; indeed, on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

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    18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast.