5 Bible Verses about Leaven

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Mark 8:15

Then He kept warning them by saying, "Look out! Keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

Matthew 13:33

He told another story: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to yeast which a woman took and worked into a bushel of flour until it all had risen."

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees!"

1 Corinthians 5:5-7

to turn such a man as this over to Satan for the destruction of his lower nature, in order that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough? You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed.

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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 meant, guard yourselves not against yeast for bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees!"

Leaven » Illustrative of » The rapid spread of the gospel

Matthew 13:33

He told another story: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to yeast which a woman took and worked into a bushel of flour until it all had risen."

Luke 13:21

It is like yeast which a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour until it all had risen."

Leaven » Used with thank offerings

Leaven » Illustrative of » UnGodly professors

1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough? You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed.

Leaven » Illustrative of » Malice and wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:8

So let us keep our feast, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the bread of purity and truth without the yeast.

Leaven » Diffusive properties of

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

Leaven » Illustrative of » False teachers

Galatians 5:8-9

Such persuasion never came from Him who called you. A little yeast will transform the whole 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

He told another story: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to yeast which a woman took and worked into a bushel of flour until it all had risen."

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