^9 (A)A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

^33 (A)Do not be deceived: ^(B)“Bad company ruins good morals.”^[a]

^6 (A)Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that ^(B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

^21 (A)It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in ^(B)three measures of flour, until it was ^(C)all leavened.”

¹⁵ And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; ^(A)beware of ^(B)the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of ^(C)Herod.”^[a]

Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees

12 In the meantime, ^(A)when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, ^(B)“Beware of ^(C)the leaven of the Pharisees, ^(D)which is hypocrisy.

¹⁷ and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are ^(A)Hymenaeus and Philetus,

⁶ Jesus said to them, “Watch and ^(A)beware of ^(B)the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ⁷ And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.” ⁸ But ^(C)Jesus, aware of this, said, ^(D)“O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? ^9 (E)Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember ^(F)the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? ¹⁰ Or ^(G)the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? ¹¹ How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? ^(H)Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ^12 (I)Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of ^(J)the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

³³ You serpents, ^(A)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to ^(B)hell?