1 Corinthians 5:6

World English Bible (2000)

Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

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  • Gal 5:9 : 9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
  • Matt 16:6-9 : 6 Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." 8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?' 9 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? 11 How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 12 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  • Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like yeast, 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 is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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  • Gal 5:8-10
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    8This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

    9A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

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

  • 1 Cor 5:7-8
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    7Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

    8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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

    2You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

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    5are to 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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    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

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    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

    7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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    26Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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    29that no flesh should boast before God.

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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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    19Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

  • Gal 6:1
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    1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

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    34Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-9
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    7Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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    5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

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    15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

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    11How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

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    9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

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    6Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

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    13For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

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    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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    12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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    16Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

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    6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

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    18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.