1 Corinthians 5:6 Parallel Translations

It's not good for you to brag. Don't you know that a little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough?(GOD'S WORD®)

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?

BBE:

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

1 Corinthians 5:6 Cross References

XREF:

Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Matthew 16:6 And Jesus said to them, "Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Romans 6:16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

1 Corinthians 5:2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

James 4:16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:6 {7} Your glorying {d} [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
(7) Another goal of excommunication is that others are not infected, and therefore it must of necessity be retained in the Church, so that one is not infected by the other.
(d) Is nothing and not grounded upon good reason, as though you were excellent, and yet there is such wickedness found among you.

PNT:

5:6 Your glorying [is] not good. Boasting, in such a state of affairs, was unseemly.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. As a little leavens the whole mass of dough, so one sinner suffered to go on in impurity sends a corrupting influence through the whole church. Compare Ga 5:9.

WES:

5:6 Your glorying - Either in your gifts or prosperity, at such a time as this, is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven - One sin, or one sinner. Leaveneth the whole lump - Diffuses guilt and infection through the whole congregation.

MHC:

5:1-8 The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that crimes should sometimes be committed by professors of the gospel, of which even heathens would be ashamed. Spiritual pride and false doctrines tend to bring in, and to spread such scandals. How dreadful the effects of sin! The devil reigns where Christ does not. And a man is in his kingdom, and under his power, when not in Christ. The bad example of a man of influence is very mischievous; it spreads far and wide. Corrupt principles and examples, if not corrected, would hurt the whole church. Believers must have new hearts, and lead new lives. Their common conversation and religious deeds must be holy. So far is the sacrifice of Christ our Passover for us, from rendering personal and public holiness unnecessary, that it furnishes powerful reasons and motives for it. Without holiness we can neither live by faith in him, nor join in his ordinances with comfort and profit.

CONC:

Batch Boasting Change Corrupts Dough Glorying Ground Leaven Leaveneth Leavens Lump Makes Mass Pride Works Yeast Yours

Batch Boasting Change Corrupts Dough Glorying Good Ground Leaven Little Makes Pride Whole Works Yeast

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