Thematic Bible: Of other evils
Thematic Bible
Leaven (yeast) » Figurative » Of other evils
A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.
Verse Concepts
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough? Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, since you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast, or with the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.