5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 1 affects 2 the whole batch of dough?
1 sn In this passage (5:6-8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1-5 and mentioned again in 5:13.
2 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”