Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast can leaven the whole batch of dough?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Holman Bible
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast
International Standard Version
Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?
A Conservative Version
Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
American Standard Version
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Amplified
Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate].
Anderson New Testament
Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?
Bible in Basic English
This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
Common New Testament
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?
Darby Translation
Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Godbey New Testament
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Goodspeed New Testament
Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough?
John Wesley New Testament
Your glorying is not good: know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Julia Smith Translation
Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?
King James 2000
Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your boasting [is] not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?
Modern King James verseion
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Your rejoicing is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven soureth the whole lump of dough?
Moffatt New Testament
Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?
Montgomery New Testament
Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?
NET Bible
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?
New Heart English Bible
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Noyes New Testament
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Sawyer New Testament
Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?
The Emphasized Bible
Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?
Webster
Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Weymouth New Testament
It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?
Williams New Testament
Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?
World English Bible
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Worrell New Testament
Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Worsley New Testament
Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
Youngs Literal Translation
Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
Themes
Backsliders » Instances of » Corinthian Christians
Evil » Influence » Evil influence of unfaithful Christians
Influence » Evil influence of unfaithful Christians
Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors
Leaven » Diffusive properties of
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 5:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Immoral Behavior And Church Discipline
5 to turn such a person over to Satan for his body to be destroyed [Note: This probably refers to his removal from their fellowship. See verse 2], in order for his spirit to be saved in the day of the Lord [i.e., the judgment day]. [Note: This implies that his removal from their fellowship will have produced a genuine repentance before that time]. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast can leaven the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast [i.e., of sin, and especially the unrepentant sinner], so that you can be a new batch of dough, without yeast in it [i.e., a godly church without unrepentant sinners in it] as [I know] you really are. For our Passover [Lamb], Christ, has already been sacrificed.
Cross References
Galatians 5:9
A little bit of yeast permeates the whole batch of dough [i.e., a few people can influence everyone else to do the wrong thing in this matter].
James 4:16
But, as it is, you people are boasting in your arrogance [and] all such boasting is evil.
1 Corinthians 5:2
And you are arrogant [about it] instead [of being ashamed]. Should you not be grieved to the point of removing from your fellowship the person who has done this [terrible] deed?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be fooled; bad company ruins good moral behavior.
Matthew 13:33
Then He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is similar to yeast, which a woman worked into a batch of dough [i.e., the amount was over half a bushel], until [the dough] was completely leavened [by it]."
Matthew 16:6-12
Jesus said to them, "Pay attention and watch out for the leavening [effect] of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Luke 13:21
It is similar to yeast, which a woman worked into three batches of dough, until the dough was completely permeated [by it]."
1 Corinthians 3:21
So, no one should boast about [the knowledge or position of] people. For all things belong to you,
1 Corinthians 4:18-19
Now some of you have become arrogant, thinking that I would not [dare to] come to you.
2 Timothy 2:17
and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among these people are Hymenaeus and Philetus,