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  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven ferments* the whole batch of dough?+

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 6 Οὐ Not καλὸν fine τὸ the καύχημα boasting ὑμῶν. of YOU. οὐκ Not οἴδατε YOU have known ὅτι that μικρὰ little ζύμη leaven ὅλον whole τὸ the φύραμα lump ζυμοῖ; is leavening?

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 6 YOUR [cause for] boasting+ is not fine. Do YOU not know that a little leaven ferments+ the whole lump?+

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    The Bible in Living English
    • 6 Your boast is not a good one. Do you not know that a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough yeasty?

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    American Standard Version
    • 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 6 Unseemly is your boast! Know ye not that a little leaven doth leaven the whole of the lump?

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6
    King James Version
    • 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

  • 1 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 5:6 lff lesson 57; it-2 230; w93 3/15 5

  • 1 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 5:6 w80 2/15 10; w77 369; w75 204; w75 428; w74 466; w73 336; ad 1051; w66 53; w65 200; w64 273; w60 113; w53 742; w52 74, 134; w46 76

  • 1 Corinthians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 5:6

      Enjoy Life Forever!, lesson 57

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 230

      The Watchtower,

      3/15/1993, p. 5

  • 1 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 5:6

      leaven: Or “yeast.” A substance added in order to ferment dough; especially a portion of fermented dough preserved from a previous batch. (Ex 12:20) In the Bible, leaven is often used as a symbol of sin and corruption.​—See study note on Mt 16:6.

      ferments: Or “spreads through; affects.” The Greek verb used here, zy·moʹo (“to leaven”), is related to the noun for “leaven,” zyʹme, also used in this verse. At Ga 5:9, Paul uses the same metaphor, which was apparently a proverbial saying.

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