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Don&#8217t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting <i>is</i> not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Your glorying <i>is</i> not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Your glorying <i>is</i> not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_corinthians/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump <i>of dough?</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_corinthians/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump <i>of dough?</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_corinthians/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Don&#8217t you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_corinthians/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_corinthians/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Stop being proud! Don't you know how a little yeast can spread through the whole batch of dough? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_corinthians/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_corinthians/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />It's not good for you to brag. Don't you know that a little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It is not right for you to be proud! You know the saying, "A little bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_corinthians/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_corinthians/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_corinthians/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_corinthians/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_corinthians/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Your glorying [is] not good; have you not known that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting <i>is</i> not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_corinthians/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_corinthians/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven will leaven the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/5.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven ferments the whole lump?<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/1_corinthians/5.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/1_corinthians/5.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/1_corinthians/5.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/1_corinthians/5.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/1_corinthians/5.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/1_corinthians/5.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-wZWoK_LZU?start=879" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Immorality Rebuked</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymōn (PPro-G2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">Your</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-NNS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2745.htm" title="2745: kauchēma (N-NNS) -- A boasting; a ground of boasting (glorying, exultation). From kauchaomai; a boast in a good or a bad sense.">boasting</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: Ou (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.">is not</a> <a href="/greek/2570.htm" title="2570: kalon (Adj-NNS) -- Properly, beautiful, but chiefly good, i.e. Valuable or virtuous.">good.</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ouk (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not."></a> <a href="/greek/1492.htm" title="1492: oidate (V-RIA-2P) -- To know, remember, appreciate. ">Do you not know</a> <a href="/greek/3754.htm" title="3754: hoti (Conj) -- Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.">that</a> <a href="/greek/3398.htm" title="3398: mikra (Adj-NFS) -- Little, small. Including the comparative mikroteros apparently a primary word; small (figuratively) dignity).">a little</a> <a href="/greek/2219.htm" title="2219: zymē (N-NFS) -- Leaven, ferment, both lit. and met. Probably from zeo; ferment.">leaven</a> <a href="/greek/2220.htm" title="2220: zymoi (V-PIA-3S) -- To leaven, ferment. From zume; to cause to ferment.">works through</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-ANS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/3650.htm" title="3650: holon (Adj-ANS) -- All, the whole, entire, complete. A primary word; whole or all, i.e. Complete, especially as noun or adverb.">whole</a> <a href="/greek/5445.htm" title="5445: phyrama (N-ANS) -- A mass or lump, as of bread dough. From a prolonged form of phuro, mean to knead; a mass of dough.">batch of dough?</a> </span> <span class="reftext">7</span>Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-9.htm">Galatians 5:9</a></span><br />A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/16-6.htm">Matthew 16:6</a></span><br />“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/16-11.htm">Matthew 16:11-12</a></span><br />How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” / Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/8-15.htm">Mark 8:15</a></span><br />“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/12-1.htm">Luke 12:1</a></span><br />In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">1 Corinthians 15:33</a></span><br />Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/2-17.htm">2 Timothy 2:17</a></span><br />and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm">Hebrews 12:15</a></span><br />See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/3-5.htm">James 3:5</a></span><br />In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/6-16.htm">Romans 6:16</a></span><br />Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-7.htm">Romans 14:7</a></span><br />For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Ephesians 4:22</a></span><br />to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5-6</a></span><br />Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/2-1.htm">1 Peter 2:1</a></span><br />Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/4-3.htm">1 Peter 4:3</a></span><br />For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?</p><p class="hdg">glorying.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/5-2.htm">1 Corinthians 5:2</a></b></br> And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/3-21.htm">1 Corinthians 3:21</a></b></br> Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/4-18.htm">1 Corinthians 4:18,19</a></b></br> Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you… </p><p class="hdg">a little.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">1 Corinthians 15:33</a></b></br> Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/13-33.htm">Matthew 13:33</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/16-6.htm">Matthew 16:6-12</a></b></br> Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/11-16.htm">Batch</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/3-21.htm">Boasting</a> <a href="/romans/8-20.htm">Change</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-7.htm">Corrupts</a> <a href="/romans/11-16.htm">Dough</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/1-31.htm">Glorying</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-15.htm">Good</a> <a href="/romans/15-23.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/mark/8-15.htm">Leaven</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-3.htm">Little</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-7.htm">Makes</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-19.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-9.htm">Whole</a> <a href="/romans/16-23.htm">Works</a> <a href="/luke/13-21.htm">Yeast</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">Batch</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-15.htm">Boasting</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-18.htm">Change</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">Corrupts</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">Dough</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-15.htm">Glorying</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-1.htm">Good</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-15.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-8.htm">Leaven</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-20.htm">Little</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">Makes</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-1.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-39.htm">Whole</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-6.htm">Works</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">Yeast</a><div class="vheading2">1 Corinthians 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">The sexual immorality person,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">is cause rather of shame unto them than of rejoicing.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">The old leaven is to be purged out.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Heinous offenders are to be shamed and avoided.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>Your boasting</b><br />In <a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6</a>, the Apostle Paul addresses the Corinthian church's attitude towards sin within their community. The Greek word for "boasting" is "καύχημα" (kauchēma), which implies a sense of pride or glorying. Historically, the Corinthian church was situated in a city known for its moral laxity and diverse cultural influences. This prideful attitude suggests a complacency or even a sense of superiority despite the presence of sin. From a conservative Christian perspective, this serves as a warning against spiritual arrogance and the danger of becoming desensitized to sin.<p><b>is not good</b><br />The phrase "is not good" is a direct rebuke. The Greek word for "good" here is "καλός" (kalos), which means noble or honorable. Paul is emphasizing that their pride is misplaced and contrary to the moral and ethical standards expected of a Christian community. In the broader scriptural context, this aligns with the biblical call to holiness and the pursuit of righteousness. The church is reminded that their actions and attitudes should reflect the character of Christ, not the permissiveness of the surrounding culture.<p><b>Do you not know</b><br />This rhetorical question is a common Pauline technique used to provoke self-examination and reflection. The phrase suggests that the Corinthians should already be aware of the truth Paul is about to convey. It implies a level of spiritual knowledge and responsibility that they are failing to act upon. In a conservative Christian view, this serves as a reminder that believers are called to be vigilant and discerning, fully aware of the implications of their actions and attitudes.<p><b>that a little yeast</b><br />The metaphor of "yeast" (Greek: "ζύμη" - zymē) is significant. In biblical times, yeast was often used as a symbol for sin or corruption because of its pervasive and transformative nature. Just as a small amount of yeast can affect an entire batch of dough, so can a seemingly small sin influence an entire community. This imagery is rooted in Jewish Passover traditions, where unleavened bread symbolizes purity and separation from sin. The conservative Christian perspective emphasizes the need for vigilance against even the smallest sin, recognizing its potential to spread and corrupt.<p><b>leavens the whole batch of dough?</b><br />The process of leavening, where yeast ferments and causes dough to rise, is used here to illustrate how sin can permeate and affect the entire church body. The historical context of this metaphor would resonate with the Corinthians, who were familiar with baking and the effects of yeast. Paul is warning that tolerating sin within the church can lead to widespread moral and spiritual decay. From a conservative standpoint, this underscores the importance of church discipline and the need to address sin decisively to maintain the purity and integrity of the Christian community.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_corinthians/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) <span class= "bld">Your glorying is not good.</span>--There is possibly a reference here to some boasting regarding their spiritual state contained in the letter which had reached St. Paul from Corinth, and to which part of this Epistle is a reply. (See <a href="/1_corinthians/7-1.htm" title="Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.">1Corinthians 7:1</a>.) So long as there is that one bad person amongst you it gives a bad character to the whole community, as leaven, though it may not have pervaded the entire lump, still makes it not the unleavened bread which was necessary for the Paschal Feast. This Epistle being written shortly before Pentecost (<a href="/1_corinthians/16-8.htm" title="But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.">1Corinthians 16:8</a>), it was very likely some time about or soon after Easter, hence the leaven and the Paschal Feast naturally suggest themselves as illustrations. The Apostle passes on rapidly from the mention of the leaven to the whole scene of the feast. As with the most minute and scrupulous care the Jew would remove every atom of leaven when the Paschal lamb was to be eaten, so our Paschal Lamb having been slain, we must take care that no moral leaven remains in the sacred household of the Church while she keeps her perpetual feast of prayer and thanksgiving.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_corinthians/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Your glorying;</span> rather, <span class="accented">the subject of your boasting, the point on which you glorify yourselves.</span> The Greek word does not mean the act of boasting, but the thing of which we boast. <span class="cmt_word">Not good</span>. The Greek word is not <span class="accented">agathon</span>, but <span class="accented">kalon</span>, an almost untranslatable word, which implies all moral beauty, and resembles the English word "fair" or "noble." When he says that it is "not good," he uses the figure called <span class="accented">litotes</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> he employs an expression intentionally too weak, that it may be corrected into a stronger one by the involuntary indignation of the reader; as when Virgil calls the cannibal tyrant Busiris "unpraised." Hence the clause is equivalent to "the thing of which you are boasting is detestable." <span class="cmt_word">Know ye not.</span> This clause is used by St. Paul in specially solemn appeals, and almost exclusively in these Epistles (<a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm">1 Corinthians 3:16</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/6-16.htm">1 Corinthians 6:16, 19</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/9-13.htm">1 Corinthians 9:13, 24</a>). <span class="cmt_word">A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump</span> (<a href="/galatians/5-9.htm">Galatians 5:9</a>). The taint alluded to is not only the presence of the unpunished offender, but the general laxity and impurity displayed by their whole bearing in the matter (comp. the line of Menander quoted in ch. 15:33, and the "root of bitterness" in <a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm">Hebrews 12:15</a>). (For the word "lump," see <a href="/romans/11-16.htm">Romans 11:16</a>.) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">Your</span><br /><span class="grk">ὑμῶν</span> <span class="translit">(hymōn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> </span><span class="str2">You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">boasting</span><br /><span class="grk">καύχημα</span> <span class="translit">(kauchēma)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2745.htm">Strong's 2745: </a> </span><span class="str2">A boasting; a ground of boasting (glorying, exultation). From kauchaomai; a boast in a good or a bad sense.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[is] not</span><br /><span class="grk">Οὐ</span> <span class="translit">(Ou)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3756.htm">Strong's 3756: </a> </span><span class="str2">No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">good.</span><br /><span class="grk">καλὸν</span> <span class="translit">(kalon)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2570.htm">Strong's 2570: </a> </span><span class="str2">Properly, beautiful, but chiefly good, i.e. Valuable or virtuous.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Do you not know</span><br /><span class="grk">οἴδατε</span> <span class="translit">(oidate)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1492.htm">Strong's 1492: </a> </span><span class="str2">To know, remember, appreciate. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="grk">ὅτι</span> <span class="translit">(hoti)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3754.htm">Strong's 3754: </a> </span><span class="str2">Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a little</span><br /><span class="grk">μικρὰ</span> <span class="translit">(mikra)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3398.htm">Strong's 3398: </a> </span><span class="str2">Little, small. Including the comparative mikroteros apparently a primary word; small (figuratively) dignity).</span><br /><br /><span class="word">yeast</span><br /><span class="grk">ζύμη</span> <span class="translit">(zymē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2219.htm">Strong's 2219: </a> </span><span class="str2">Leaven, ferment, both lit. and met. Probably from zeo; ferment.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">leavens</span><br /><span class="grk">ζυμοῖ</span> <span class="translit">(zymoi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2220.htm">Strong's 2220: </a> </span><span class="str2">To leaven, ferment. From zume; to cause to ferment.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the</span><br /><span class="grk">τὸ</span> <span class="translit">(to)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">whole</span><br /><span class="grk">ὅλον</span> <span class="translit">(holon)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3650.htm">Strong's 3650: </a> </span><span class="str2">All, the whole, entire, complete. A primary word; 'whole' or 'all', i.e. Complete, especially as noun or adverb.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">batch [of dough]?</span><br /><span class="grk">φύραμα</span> <span class="translit">(phyrama)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5445.htm">Strong's 5445: </a> </span><span class="str2">A mass or lump, as of bread dough. From a prolonged form of phuro, mean to knead; a mass of dough.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 5:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 5:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 5:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 5:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>