1 Corinthians 5:6

1 Corinthians 5:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• New International Version (NIV)Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Context of 1 Corinthians 5:6

4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to hand over this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]? 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch, just as you are, still unleavened. For Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed. 8Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and [untainted] truth.

1 Corinthians 5:6 word by word

Οὐ καλὸν τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν. οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ;Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yourσύsu · youG4771
• gloryingὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• gloryingκαύχημαkauchēma · prideG2745
• notοὐou · noG3756
• goodκαλόςkalos · goodG2570
• Know yeεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• a littleμικρόςmikros mikroteros · smallG3398
• leavenζύμηzumē · leavenG2219
• leavenethζυμόωzumoō · to leavenG2220
• the wholeὅλοςholos · allG3650
• lumpφύραμαphurama · lumpG5445

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 5:6

• 1 Corinthians 5:2And you are proud and arrogant! You should have mourned in shame so that the man who has done this [disgraceful] thing would be removed from your fellowship!
• 1 Corinthians 3:21So let no one boast in men [about their wisdom, or of having this or that one as a leader]. For all things are yours,
• 1 Corinthians 4:18Now some of you have become arrogant and pretentious, as though I were not coming to see you.
• James 4:16But as it is, you boast [vainly] in your pretension and arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
• 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
• Matthew 13:33He told them another parable, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and worked into three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”
• Matthew 16:6Jesus said to them, “Watch out and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three peck measures of flour until it was all leavened.”
• Galatians 5:9A little leaven [a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers] leavens the whole batch [it perverts the concept of faith and misleads the church].
• 2 Timothy 2:17and their teaching will spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 5:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Your glorying is not good - You are triumphing in your superior knowledge, and busily employed in setting up and supporting your respective teachers, while the Church is left under the most scandalous corruptions - corruptions which threaten its very existence if not purged away. Know ye not - With all your boasted wisdom, do you not know and acknowledge the truth of a common maxim, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? If this leaven - the incestuous…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Your glorying - Your boasting; or confidence in your present condition, as if you were eminent in purity and piety. Is not good - Is not well, proper, right. Boasting is never good; but it is especially wrong when, as here, there is an existing evil that is likely to corrupt the whole church. When people are disposed to boast, they should at once make the inquiry whether there is not some sin indulged in, on account of which they should be humbled and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7Yeast often symbolized sin (see Matthew 16:6, 12; Mark 8:15; Luke 12:1; Galatians 5:9). Jews ceremonially removed yeast from their homes before the annual Passover meal (Exodus 12:19; 13:7). Get rid of the old leaven: If left unchecked, sin could spread throughout the church, just as yeast spreads through dough.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Your glorying in your own attainments and those of your favorite teachers (1Co 3:21; 4:19; 5:2), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is quite unseemly. a little leaven leaveth ... whole lump--(Ga 5:9), namely, with present complicity in the guilt, and the danger of future contagion (1Co 15:33; 2Ti 2:17).Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 5:6

• Adultery
• Backsliders
• Church
• Company
• Influence
• Leaven (Yeast)
• Pride
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Fornication
• Glorying
• Leaven
• Corinthians, First Epistle to the
• Excommunication
• Hymenaeus
• Jude, the Epistle of
• Pauline Theology
• Passover
• unleavened bread

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings