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1 Corinthians 5:6

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5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 1  affects 2  the whole batch of dough?

1 Corinthians 8:11

Context
8:11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, 3  for whom Christ died, is destroyed. 4 

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.”

3 tn Grk “the one who is weak…the brother for whom Christ died,” but see note on the word “Christian” in 5:11.

4 tn This may be an indirect middle, “destroys himself.”



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