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?
• 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?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough?

Context of 1 Corinthians 5:6

4So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with 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

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! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this?
• 1 Corinthians 3:21So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours,
• 1 Corinthians 4:18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
• James 4:16As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
• 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
• Matthew 13:33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
• Matthew 16:6“Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Luke 13:21It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
• Galatians 5:9“A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”
• 2 Timothy 2:17Their teaching 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