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THE MESSAGE
Galatians 5:9
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A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
The lies these people are spreadin' is like foot-and-mouth disease in cattle. It infects one and then fatally spreads to others.
A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.
A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
A little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough.
A little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe.
A little leaven leavens all the lump.
A litle leuen sowreth the whole lompe of dowe.
a little leaven affects the whole mass.
A little leaven [a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers] leavens the whole batch [it perverts the concept of faith and misleads the church].
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
A lytell leven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;
Be careful! "Just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise."
A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!
A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
A little yeast can change a whole batch of dough,
"It takes only a little hametz to leaven the whole batch of dough."
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
A litle leauen doeth leauen the whole lumpe.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.1 Corinthians 5:6; 15:33;">[xr]
A little leaven the whole mass leaveneth.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough!
It only takes a little yeast to make the whole loaf of bread rise.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.
A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough.
A litle leauen, doth leauen the whole lumpe of dowe.
Be careful! "Just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise."
A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.
"It takes only a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise," as they say.
A litil souredowy apeirith al the gobet.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Matthew 23:33, Matthew 16:6-12, Mark 8:15, Luke 12:1, Luke 13:21, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 2 Timothy 2:17
Reciprocal: Exodus 12:8 - unleavened Leviticus 2:11 - no leaven Matthew 13:33 - like
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. A proverbial expression pretty much in use with the Jews; see 1 Corinthians 5:6, respecting either persons or things; and is in answer to, or prevents an objection that might be made, or something that might be said, in favour of these churches; that their case was not so bad, or the danger they were in so great, as was represented by the apostle; since they were only a few persons that propagated this notion, and but few that received it, at least thoroughly gave into it; and that, if it was an error, it was but a small one, and only regarded a single ritual, or a few rituals of the law; to which the apostle replies, by supposing, but not granting this to be the case, since they were pretty generally declined, and the error was not a slight one, that as a little sour leaven influences and ferments a large mass, or lump of dough, and makes it of the same nature with it, so a small error in doctrine, as it may be thought to be, increases to more ungodliness, and eats as doth a canker; and though a few hands may be first concerned in propagating it, and but few be infected with it, yet these may soon spread the contagion through the whole society: wherefore errors and false teachers should be nipped in the bud, and stopped in their beginnings, how inconsiderable soever they and their tenets may be judged to be.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A little leaven ... - This is evidently a proverbial expression; see it explained in the notes at 1 Corinthians 5:6. Its meaning here is, that the embracing of the errors which they had adopted was to be traced to some influence existing among themselves, and acting like leaven. It may either mean that there was existing among them from the first a slight tendency to conform to rites and customs, and that this had now like leaven pervaded the mass; or it may mean that the false teachers there might be compared to leaven, whose doctrines, though they were few in number, had pervaded the mass of Christians; or it may mean, as many have supposed, that any conformity to the Jewish law was like leaven. If they practiced circumcision, it would not stop there. The tendency to conform to Jewish rites would spread from that until it would infect all the doctrines of religion, and they would fall into the observance of all the rites of the Jewish law. It seems to me that the second interpretation referred to above is the correct one; and that the apostle means to say, that the influence which had brought this change about was at first small and unimportant; that there might have been but a few teachers of that kind, and it might have not been deemed worthy of particular attention or alarm; but that the doctrines thus infused into the churches, had spread like leaven, until the whole mass had become affected.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. — A proverbial expression, see 1 Corinthians 5:6, very aptly applied to those who receive the smallest tincture of false doctrine, relative to the things essential to salvation, which soon influences the whole conduct, so that the man becomes totally perverted. They might have argued, "It is a small thing, and should not be made a subject of serious controversy, whether we be circumcised or not." Granted, that in itself it is a small matter; but, as every man who is circumcised is a debtor to do the whole law, Galatians 5:3, then your circumcision leads necessarily to your total perversion; as the little portion of leaven, mixed with the batch, soon leavens the whole lump.
