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


In Context

3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the 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 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 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?