Galatians 5:9

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A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
  • Mark 8:15 : 15 And Jesus ordered them,“Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”
  • Luke 12:1 : 1 Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were 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.
  • 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 5:6-7 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean 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.
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.
  • 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.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

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  • 1 Cor 5:5-9
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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.

    6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

    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.

    9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

  • Gal 5:10
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    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.

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

  • Luke 13:21
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    21It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”

  • Mark 8:15
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    15And Jesus ordered them,“Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”

  • Matt 16:6-7
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    6“Watch out,” Jesus said to them,“beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

    7So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying,“It is because we brought no bread.”

  • Matt 13:33
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    33The 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 16:11-12
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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!”

    12Then 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.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

  • 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.

  • Luke 12:1
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    1Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were 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.

  • 2 Cor 9:5-6
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    5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

    6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Luke 16:10
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    10“The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

  • Heb 12:15
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    15See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.

  • Hos 7:4
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    4They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

  • Jas 3:5
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    5So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

  • Exod 12:19-20
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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.

    20You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”

  • Gal 1:7
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    7not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

  • 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,

  • Eph 5:9-10
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    9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–

    10trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

  • 2 Tim 2:17
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    17and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17Exhortation to the Faithful But you, dear friends– recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Jas 5:19
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    19My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

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

  • Jas 2:10
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    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

  • 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 Pet 5:9-10
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    9Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

    10And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

  • Jas 5:9
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    9Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • Heb 10:24
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    24And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

  • 1 Thess 5:24
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    24He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this.

  • Gal 5:1
    66%

    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

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

  • Heb 3:12-13
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    12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

    13But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

  • 1 Cor 5:13
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    13But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.

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