10 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

He ordered them to be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Matthew 13:33

He offered another illustration: The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.

Matthew 16:6

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

Exodus 12:19-20

There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. You shall not eat anything leavened. Eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 2:11

Every grain offering you bring to Jehovah must be made without yeast. Do not use yeast or honey in food offered to Jehovah.

Leviticus 7:13

In addition to these rings of bread, you must bring leavened bread (with yeast) along with your fellowship offering of thanksgiving.

Leviticus 23:17

Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to Jehovah. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for Jehovah.

Numbers 15:20-21

When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to Jehovah. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh. For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to Jehovah from the bread you bake.

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

Deliver this one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough? Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us.

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

Exodus 13:7

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. No leavened bread shall be seen with you or in all your borders.

Deuteronomy 16:4

No leaven should be seen with you in all your territory for seven days. None of the flesh you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning.

Feast of the passover » Leaven » Punishment for eating

Exodus 12:15

You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:19

There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

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

Exodus 12:19

There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

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

Exodus 12:20

You shall not eat anything leavened. Eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.

Leaven » Forbidden » Burnt offering » Meat offering

Leviticus 10:12

Moses spoke to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar. He said: Take the grain offering that is left over from the food offered to Jehovah. Bake unleavened bread with it and eat it beside the altar. This is because this offering is very holy.

Leviticus 2:11

Every grain offering you bring to Jehovah must be made without yeast. Do not use yeast or honey in food offered to Jehovah.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Doctrines of pharisees, &c

Matthew 16:12

Then they realized it was not the leaven of bread he had in mind. It was the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

Jesus said: 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

He offered another illustration: The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.

Luke 13:21

It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour. Soon the whole batch of dough rises.

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leviticus 7:13

In addition to these rings of bread, you must bring leavened bread (with yeast) along with your fellowship offering of thanksgiving.

Amos 4:5

Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened. Proclaim freewill-offerings and make them known. This pleases you, O you children of Israel, said the Lord Jehovah.

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough? Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither 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 boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

This persuasion did not come from him who calls you. A little leaven, leavens (ferments) the whole lump.

Leaven » Forbidden » During the feast of passover

Exodus 12:15-20

You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel. You shall have a holy assembly on the first day. There should be another holy assembly on the seventh day. No work at all will be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person that alone may be prepared by you. You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance. read more.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. You shall not eat anything leavened. Eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.

Leaven » First fruits of wheat offered with

Leviticus 23:17

Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to Jehovah. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for Jehovah.

Leaven » Forbidden » To be offered with blood

Exodus 34:25

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me at the same time you offer anything containing yeast. No part of the sacrifice at the Passover festival should be left over in the morning.

Leaven » Used in making bread

Hosea 7:4

They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.

Parables » Parables of Christ » Leaven

Matthew 13:33

He offered another illustration: The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.

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