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1 Corinthians 5:6
Amplified Bible
1 Corinthians 5:6
Amplified Bible
6 Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. [a]Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]?
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- 1 Corinthians 5:6 See note 3:16.
1 Corinthians 5:6
New English Translation
1 Corinthians 5:6
New English Translation
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast[a] affects[b] the whole batch of dough?
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- 1 Corinthians 5:6 sn In this passage (5:6-8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1-5 and mentioned again in 5:13.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”
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