I charge you solemnly, before God and Christ Jesus and the Chosen Angels, to carry out these directions, unswayed by prejudice, never acting with partiality.

I urge you, as in the sight of God, the source of all life, and of Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the great profession of Faith--

Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.

Take

Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

The leaven of the

Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

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Afterwards they sent to Jesus some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to set a trap for him in the course of conversation.

Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a snare for Jesus in the course of conversation.

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A little leaven leavens all the dough.