Verse 9

a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;
• Mark 8:15 : 15 and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'
• Luke 12:1 : 1 At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;
• Luke 13:21 : 21 It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'
• 1 Cor 5:6-7 : 6 Not good `is' your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven? 7 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,
• 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
• Matt 16:6-9 : 6 and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;' 7 and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.' 8 And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves? 9 do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up? 10 nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?' 12 Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
• Matt 23:33 : 33 `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?