Verse 6

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.