Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Bible References

General references

Matthew 23:33
You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?
Matthew 16:6
Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Mark 8:15
So he cautioned them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."
Luke 12:1
Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,
Luke 13:21
It is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'
2 Timothy 2:17
and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus;