5 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

And he earnestly charged them, saying, Beware, take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened.

Matthew 16:6

Then Jesus said to them, Beware and abstain from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

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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 understood they, that he spake about abstaining not from the leaven in the bread, but from the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

Then Jesus said to them, Beware and abstain from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Leaven » Illustrative of » The rapid spread of the gospel

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened.

Luke 13:21

It is like leaven, which a woman taking, covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Leaven » Diffusive properties of

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

This persuasion cometh not from him who called you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.

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 parable spake he to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened.

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