1 Corinthians 5:6
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Corinthians 5:6 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Corinthians 5:6 is a verse from the book of 1 Corinthians in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Corinthians 5:6 — KJV
“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
— 1 Corinthians 5:6 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 5:6 in Context — About the Book of 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians is pastoral surgery on a gifted, divided, messy church — addressing factions, immorality, lawsuits, worship chaos, and doubts about resurrection. It contains the love chapter read at countless weddings and the Bible's fullest teaching on spiritual gifts and the resurrection body.
Cross-References for 1 Corinthians 5:6
“A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 5:6: little, leaven, leaveneth
“Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 5:6: good, know, little
“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. measures: the word in the Greek is a measure containing about a peck and a half, wanting a little more than a pint”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 5:6: little, leaven, whole
“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 5:6: good, know
“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. thou shalt surely...: Heb. dying thou shalt die”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 5:6: good, know
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