5 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

So Jesus gave them this warning. "Take care," he said, "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

Matthew 13:33

This was another parable which Jesus related-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

Matthew 16:6

Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord. Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough? Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-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 had told them to be on their guard, not against the leaven of bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Leaven » Illustrative of » The rapid spread of the gospel

Matthew 13:33

This was another parable which Jesus related-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

Luke 13:21

It is like some yeast which a woman took and covered in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough? Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself;

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Leaven » Diffusive properties of

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

The persuasion brought to bear on you does not come from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens all the dough.

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

This was another parable which Jesus related-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

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