1 Corinthians 5:6

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Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

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  • Gal 5:9 : 9 A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 The Parable of the Yeast He told them another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”
  • Matt 16:6-9 : 6 “Watch out,” Jesus said to them,“beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7 So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying,“It is because we brought no bread.” 8 When Jesus learned of this, he said,“You who have such little faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves about having no bread? 9 Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? 10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up? 11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!” 12 Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  • Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”
  • 1 Cor 3:21 : 21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,
  • 1 Cor 4:18-19 : 18 Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out not only the talk of these arrogant people, but also their power.

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  • Gal 5:8-10
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    8This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

    9A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!

    10I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

  • 1 Cor 5:7-8
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    7Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough– you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

    8So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

  • 1 Cor 5:1-2
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    1Church Discipline It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

    2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil.

  • 1 Cor 5:5
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    5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

    7For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29so that no one can boast in his presence.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

  • Gal 6:1
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    1Support One Another Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say this to your shame!

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-9
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    7The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

    8But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

    9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

    4Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

    6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

  • Gal 5:15-16
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    15However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

    16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

  • Matt 16:11
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    11How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

  • Prov 25:27
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    27It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable for people to seek their own glory.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

  • Matt 16:6
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    6“Watch out,” Jesus said to them,“beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

  • Exod 12:19
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    19For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast– that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a resident foreigner or one born in the land.

  • 1 Cor 8:12
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    12If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • Rom 2:23
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    23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Exod 12:15
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    15For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

  • 1 Tim 3:6
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    6He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

  • 2 Cor 11:18
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    18Since many are boasting according to human standards, I too will boast.