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1 Corinthians 5:6
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1 Corinthians 5:6
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
6Your glorying is not good: *know ye not that a little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe?
- Gal. 5.9.
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1 Corinthians 5:6
Boasting or exulting; taking pride or rejoicing in a person or thing.
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That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fermented dough used to make other dough rise; figuratively, a spreading influence.
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Leavens; causes dough to ferment and rise, or works through something by influence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Entire, complete, or undivided; also sound or restored to health, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
In the lump the whole together; in gross.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study9A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
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Open the full verse study33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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Open the full verse study16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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Open the full verse study2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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Open the full verse study21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
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Open the full verse study18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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Open the full verse study21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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Open the full verse study17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;
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Open the full verse study33¶ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
7And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
8Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
10Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
11How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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