1 Corinthians 5:6

5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?


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.

tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”