Now if the first fruits [are] holy, [so] also [is] the [whole] batch of dough, and if the root [is] holy, [so] also [are] the branches.

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

Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

but He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation]; for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively] in [your] weakness.” Therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ [may completely enfold me and] may dwell in me.

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough.

with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

By faith he has kept the pascha, and the pouring out of blood, lest he destroying the first born should touch them.

then be pray'd again: the heavens sent its showers, and the earth push'd out its fruit.

And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth, and there fell a noisome and a sore botch upon the men, which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall pitch his tent among them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be among them-their God.