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

4When you have gathered together, I am with you in spirit. Then, in the name of our Lord Jesus, and with his power, 5hand such a person over to Satan to destroy his corrupt nature so that his spiritual nature may be saved on the day of the Lord. It’s not good for you to brag. Don’t you know that a little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough? 7Remove the old yeast ⌞of sin⌟ so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you don’t actually have the yeast ⌞of sin⌟. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8So we must not celebrate our festival with the old yeast ⌞of sin⌟ or with the yeast of vice and wickedness. Instead, we must celebrate it with the bread of purity and truth that has no yeast.

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 5:2You’re being arrogant when you should have been more upset about this. If you had been upset, the man who did this would have been removed from among you.
• 1 Corinthians 3:21So don’t brag about people. Everything belongs to you.
• 1 Corinthians 4:18Some of you have become arrogant because you think I won’t pay you a visit.
• James 4:16However, you brag because you’re arrogant. All such bragging is evil.
• 1 Corinthians 15:33Don’t let anyone deceive you. Associating with bad people will ruin decent people.
• Matthew 13:33He used another illustration. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman mixed into a large amount of flour until the yeast worked its way through all the dough.”
• Matthew 16:6Jesus said to them, “Be careful! Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
• Luke 13:21It’s like yeast that a woman mixed into a large amount of flour until the yeast worked its way through all the dough.”
• Galatians 5:9A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.
• 2 Timothy 2:17and what they say will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

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