5 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

And he warned them, saying, "Look out! Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Matthew 13:33

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord. Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough? You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

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

Feast of the passover » Leaven » Punishment for eating

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

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

Leaven » Forbidden » Burnt offering » Meat offering

Leaven » Illustrative of » Doctrines of pharisees, &c

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that he was warning them not against yeast but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Leaven » Illustrative of » The rapid spread of the gospel

Matthew 13:33

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

Luke 13:21

It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour, till it all rose."

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough? You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

Leaven » Diffusive properties of

1 Corinthians 5:6

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

That kind of persuasion never came from him who called you! A little yeast will make all the dough rise.

Leaven » Forbidden » During the feast of passover

Leaven » First fruits of wheat offered with

Leaven » Forbidden » To be offered with blood

Leaven » Used in making bread

Parables » Parables of Christ » Leaven

Matthew 13:33

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

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