Verse 9

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

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  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.
  • Mark 8:15 : 15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
  • Luke 12:1 : 1 Meanwhile, when there was gathered together a vast multitude of people, so much that they trampled one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
  • 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 5:6-7 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 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.
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
  • 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.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?