And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

I testify before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without hasty judgment, and do nothing partially.

I give thee charge in the sight of God, which quickeneth all things, and before Jesus Christ, which under Pontius Pilate witnessed a good witnessing,

Of these things put them in remembrance, and testify before the Lord, that they strive not about words, which is to no profit, but to pervert the hearers.

Take

My son, heareth no more the doctrine that leadeth thee away from the words of understanding.

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

As there gathered together an innumerable multitude of people - insomuch that they trod one another - he began to say unto his disciples, "First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

The leaven of the

The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet bread unto the twenty-first day of the month at even again.

"'All the meat offerings which ye shall bring unto the LORD shall be made without leaven. For ye shall neither burn leaven nor honey in any offering of the LORD.

Your rejoicing is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven soureth the whole lump of dough?

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And they sent unto him certain of the Pharisees with Herod's servants, to take him in his words.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel, how they might tangle him in his words.

General references

A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump of dough.