I charge you, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, doing nothing out of favoritism.

I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Remind them of these things, and charge them in the presence of God to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

Take

Then Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trampled one another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

The leaven of the

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

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Then they sent to him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.

General references

A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.