1 Corinthians 5:6
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
6 [About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?
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1 Corinthians 5:6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast(A) permeates the whole batch of dough?(B)
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1 Corinthians 5:6-8
The Message
6-8 Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.
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1 Corinthians 5:6
New King James Version
6 (A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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