Galatians 5:9
mA little *leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ.
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1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2 Timothy 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenand Philetus;
Matthew 13:33 ¶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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leaven-yeast, fermented dough.
This is a proverbial expression, which (as others of that nature) is applicable in more cases than one. The apostle made use of it, 1Co 5:6, to persuade that church to purge their communion, by casting out the incestuous person: he maketh use of it here to persuade them to take heed of admitting any principles of false doctrine, which he compareth to leaven, (as our Saviour does, Mat 16:6,12), and that very fitly, both in regard of the sour and of the diffusive nature of it; the latter of which is here chiefly intended; the truths of God having such dependence one upon another, that he who erreth in any one doctrine of faith, seldom continueth long sound as to other points.