1 Corinthians 5:6

English Standard Version

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1Co 5:2; 1Co 15:33; Ga 5:9; Jas 4:16) 

New International Version

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

New International Reader’s Version

6 Your boasting is not good. It is like yeast. Don’t you know that just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise? 

King James Version

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 

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