10 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Matthew 13:33

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Exodus 12:19-20

For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

Leviticus 2:11

No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Leviticus 7:13

With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.

Leviticus 23:17

Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

Numbers 15:20-21

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up. From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus. This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass? Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

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Feast of the passover » Leaven » Not to be in any of their quarters

Exodus 13:7

Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.

Deuteronomy 16:4

For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning.

Feast of the passover » Leaven » Punishment for eating

Exodus 12:15

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:19

For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

Feast of the passover » Leaven » Not to be in their houses during

Exodus 12:19

For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

Feast of the passover » Leaven » Nothing with, to be eaten

Exodus 12:20

Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

Leaven » Forbidden » Burnt offering » Meat offering

Leviticus 10:12

And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy.

Leviticus 2:11

No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Doctrines of pharisees, &c

Matthew 16:12

Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Leaven » Illustrative of » The rapid spread of the gospel

Matthew 13:33

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

Luke 13:21

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leviticus 7:13

With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.

Amos 4:5

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass? Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

Leaven » Diffusive properties of

1 Corinthians 5:6

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his. A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

Leaven » Forbidden » During the feast of passover

Exodus 12:15-20

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food. So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever. read more.
In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

Leaven » First fruits of wheat offered with

Leviticus 23:17

Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

Leaven » Forbidden » To be offered with blood

Exodus 34:25

No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

Leaven » Used in making bread

Hosea 7:4

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

Parables » Parables of Christ » Leaven

Matthew 13:33

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

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