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Selected Verse: 1 Corinthians 5:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Co 5:6 |
King James |
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Your glorying in your own attainments and those of your favorite teachers (Co1 3:21; Co1 4:19; Co1 5:2), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is quite unseemly.
a little leaven leaveth . . . whole lump-- (Gal 5:9), namely, with present complicity in the guilt, and the danger of future contagion (Co1 15:33; Ti2 2:17). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Your glorying - Your boasting; or confidence in your present condition, as if you were eminent in purity and piety.
Is not good - Is not well, proper, right. Boasting is never good; but it is especially wrong when, as here, there is an existing evil that is likely to corrupt the whole church. When people are disposed to boast, they should at once make the inquiry whether there is not some sin indulged in, on account of which they should be humbled and subdued. If all individual Christians, and all Christian churches, and all people of every rank and condition, would look at things as they are, they would never find occasion for boasting. It is only when we are blind to the realities of the ease, and overlook our faults, that we are disposed to boast. The reason why this was improper in Corinth, Paul states - that any sin would tend to corrupt the whole church, and that therefore they ought not to boast until that was removed.
A little leaven ... - A small quantity of leaven or yeast will pervade the entire mass of flour, or dough, and diffuse itself through it all. This is evidently a proverbial saying. It occurs also in Gal 5:9. Compare the note at Mat 13:33. A similar figure occurs also in the Greek classic writers - By leaven the Hebrews metaphorically understood whatever had the power of corrupting, whether doctrine, or example, or anything else. See the note at Mat 16:6. The sense here is plain. A single sin indulged in, or allowed in the church, would act like leaven - it would pervade and corrupt the whole church, unless it was removed. On this ground, and for this reason, discipline should be administered, and the corrupt member should be removed. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Glorying (καῦχημα)
Not the act, but the subject of boasting; namely, the condition of the Corinthian church.
Lump (φύραμα)
See on Rom 12:21. A significant term, suggesting the oneness of the Church, and the consequent danger from evil-doers. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Your glorying - Either in your gifts or prosperity, at such a time as this, is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven - One sin, or one sinner. Leaveneth the whole lump - Diffuses guilt and infection through the whole congregation. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Your glorying is not good - You are triumphing in your superior knowledge, and busily employed in setting up and supporting your respective teachers, while the Church is left under the most scandalous corruptions - corruptions which threaten its very existence if not purged away.
Know ye not - With all your boasted wisdom, do you not know and acknowledge the truth of a common maxim, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? If this leaven - the incestuous person, be permitted to remain among you; if his conduct be not exposed by the most formidable censure; the flood-gates of impurity will be opened on the Church, and the whole state of Christianity ruined in Corinth. |
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.