Bible verse

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

1 Corinthians 5:6 · BSB

1 Corinthians 5:6 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 5.

2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

3 Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

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

10 I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

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1 Corinthians 5:6 in other translations

KJV

Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

ASV

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

ERV

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

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