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


In Context

3 Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed 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, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,

5 hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.

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

7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

1st 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens 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?