10 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

And he enjoined them, saying, See ye, look away from the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, Attend and keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Exodus 12:19-20

Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for all eating from the leavened, that soul shall be destroyed from the assembly of Israel, for the sojourner or for the native of the land. All leavened ye shall not eat: in all your dwellings ye shall eat unleavened.

Leviticus 2:11

Every gift which ye shall bring near to Jehovah shall not be made leavened: for all leaven and all honey ye shall not burn from it a sacrifice to Jehovah.

Leviticus 7:13

With the cakes, leavened bread he shall bring, an offering upon the sacrifice of praise of his peace.

Leviticus 23:17

From your dwellings shall ye bring two loaves lifted up, of two tenths of fine flour shall they be; leavened shall they be, baked, the first-fruits to Jehovah.

Numbers 15:20-21

The first of your groats, a cake, shall ye lift up a lifting up; as the lifting up of the threshing floor, so shall ye lift it up. From the first of your groats, shall ye give to Jehovah a lifting up, for your generations.

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture? Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

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

Exodus 13:7

Unleavened shall be eaten seven days: and leavened shall not be seen to thee in all thy bounds.

Deuteronomy 16:4

And leaven shall not be seen to thee in all thy boundary seven days; and there shall not remain over night from the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice in the evening, in the first day to the morning.

Feast of the passover » Leaven » Punishment for eating

Exodus 12:15

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day.

Exodus 12:19

Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for all eating from the leavened, that soul shall be destroyed from the assembly of Israel, for the sojourner or for the native of the land.

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

Exodus 12:19

Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for all eating from the leavened, that soul shall be destroyed from the assembly of Israel, for the sojourner or for the native of the land.

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

Exodus 12:20

All leavened ye shall not eat: in all your dwellings ye shall eat unleavened.

Leaven » Forbidden » Burnt offering » Meat offering

Leviticus 10:12

And Moses will speak to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons being left, Take ye the gift remaining from the sacrifices of Jehovah, and eat it unleavened by the altar: for it is holy of holies.

Leviticus 2:11

Every gift which ye shall bring near to Jehovah shall not be made leavened: for all leaven and all honey ye shall not burn from it a sacrifice to Jehovah.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Doctrines of pharisees, &c

Matthew 16:12

Then understood they that he spake, not to keep from the leaven of bread, but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, Attend and keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Leaven » Illustrative of » The rapid spread of the gospel

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

Luke 13:21

It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened.

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leviticus 7:13

With the cakes, leavened bread he shall bring, an offering upon the sacrifice of praise of his peace.

Amos 4:5

And burn incense from leaven, a thanksgiving, and call; cause the free will offerings to be heard: for thus ye loved ye sons of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture? Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.

Leaven » Diffusive properties of

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

The confidence not from him calling you. A little leaven leavens the whole mixture.

Leaven » Forbidden » During the feast of passover

Exodus 12:15-20

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day. And in the first day a calling of holiness, and in the seventh day a calling of holiness shall be to you; every service shall not be done in them only what shall be eaten by every soul; this only shall be done by you. And ye watched the unleavened; for in this self-same day I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt and watch ye this day for your generations a law forever. read more.
In the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened till the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening. Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for all eating from the leavened, that soul shall be destroyed from the assembly of Israel, for the sojourner or for the native of the land. All leavened ye shall not eat: in all your dwellings ye shall eat unleavened.

Leaven » First fruits of wheat offered with

Leviticus 23:17

From your dwellings shall ye bring two loaves lifted up, of two tenths of fine flour shall they be; leavened shall they be, baked, the first-fruits to Jehovah.

Leaven » Forbidden » To be offered with blood

Exodus 34:25

Thou shalt not slaughter upon leaven, the blood of my sacrifice; and the sacrifice of the festival of the pass-over shall not be left to morning.

Leaven » Used in making bread

Hosea 7:4

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.

Parables » Parables of Christ » Leaven

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

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