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 with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and 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

• Your boastingκαύχημαkauchēma · prideG2745
• is not goodκαλόςkalos · goodG2570
• a littleμικρόςmikros mikroteros · smallG3398
• leavenζύμηzumē · leavenG2219
• leavensζυμόωzumoō · to leavenG2220
• the wholeὅλοςholos · allG3650
• lumpφύραμαphurama · lumpG5445

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 5:6

• 1 Corinthians 5:2You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
• 1 Corinthians 3:21So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,
• 1 Corinthians 4:18Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
• James 4:16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
• 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
• Matthew 13:33He spoke another parable to them, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”
• Matthew 16:6And Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”
• Galatians 5:9A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.
• 2 Timothy 2:17and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are 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