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Galatians 5:9

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

KJV

μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ.

Greek NT

Modicum fermentum totam massam corrumpit.

Vulgate

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

ASV

A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

Symbols Leaven

In the original Greek

6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

ζυμόω
zumoo
verb · 4×
ζύμη
zume
noun · 13×
μικρός
mikros
adjective · 42×
φύραμα
phurama
noun · 5×
o
article · 19778×
ὅλος
olos
adjective · 109×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:6 — Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  • 1Cor 5:6 — Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  • 1Cor 15:33 — Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
  • 2Tim 2:17 — And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
  • Lev 2:11 — No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
  • Luke 12:1 — In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the lea
  • Luke 13:21 — It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
  • Mark 8:15 — And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
  • Matt 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.
  • Matt 16:6 — Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
  • Matt 16:6 — Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
  • Matt 23:33 — Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?