Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Parallel translations
- KJV Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- BSB Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- NKJV Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
- NASB Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
- 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?
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- Gal 5:9A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
- 1 Cor 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
- Jas 4:16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
- 1 Cor 5:2You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
- 1 Cor 4:18–19Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- 1 Cor 3:21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
- Luke 13:21It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
- 2 Tim 2:17and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
- Matt 13:33He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
- Matt 16:6–12Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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