Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

A little leaven leavens the whole mixture.

New American Standard Bible

A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

King James Version

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Holman Bible

A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.

International Standard Version

A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.

A Conservative Version

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

American Standard Version

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Amplified

A little leaven [a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers] leavens the whole batch [it perverts the concept of faith and misleads the church].

An Understandable Version

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].

Anderson New Testament

A little leaven leavens the whole mass.

Bible in Basic English

A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

Common New Testament

A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

Daniel Mace New Testament

a little leaven affects the whole mass.

Darby Translation

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Godbey New Testament

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Goodspeed New Testament

A little yeast will make all the dough rise.

John Wesley New Testament

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

King James 2000

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough.

Modern King James verseion

A little leaven leavens all the lump.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump of dough.

Moffatt New Testament

(A morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump.)

Montgomery New Testament

A little leaven is leavening the whole lump.

NET Bible

A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!

New Heart English Bible

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Noyes New Testament

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Sawyer New Testament

A little leaven leavens the whole mass.

The Emphasized Bible

A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.

Twentieth Century New Testament

A little leaven leavens all the dough.

Webster

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Weymouth New Testament

A little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough.

Williams New Testament

A little yeast will transform the whole dough.

World English Bible

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Worrell New Testament

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Worsley New Testament

I have confidence in you however through the Lord,

Youngs Literal Translation

a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A little
μικρός μικρότερος 
Mikros 
Usage: 15

ζύμη 
Zume 
Usage: 6

ζυμόω 
Zumoo 
Usage: 2

the
φύραμα 
Phurama 
Usage: 5

ὅλος 
Holos 
Usage: 83

References

Images Galatians 5:9

Prayers for Galatians 5:9

Context Readings

Live In Freedom And Love One Another

8 The confidence not from him calling you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole mixture. 10 I have trusted to you in the Lord, that ye will have nothing different in mind; and he troubling you shall bear judgment, whoever he be.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:33

Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits.

Matthew 16:6-12

And Jesus said to them, Attend and keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Matthew 23:33

Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?

Mark 8:15

And he enjoined them, saying, See ye, look away from the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.

Luke 12:1

Upon which, myriads of the crowd having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to speak to his disciples first, Keep yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 13:21

It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened.

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

2 Timothy 2:17

And this word as a gangrene, will have an eating ulcer: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;

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