6Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?


In Context

3 For I, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

4 to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

5 to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

8 so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?