KJV: Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
YLT: Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
Darby: Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
ASV: Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
| καλὸν | good [is] |
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Parse: Adjective, Nominative Neuter Singular Root: καλός Sense: beautiful, handsome, excellent, eminent, choice, surpassing, precious, useful, suitable, commendable, admirable. |
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| καύχημα | boasting |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Neuter Singular Root: καύχημα Sense: that of which one glories or can glory, matter or ground of glorying. |
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| ὑμῶν | of you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| οἴδατε | know you |
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Parse: Verb, Perfect Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: οἶδα Sense: to see. |
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| ὅτι | that |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: ὅτι Sense: that, because, since. |
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| μικρὰ | a little |
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Parse: Adjective, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: μικρός Sense: small, little. |
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| ζύμη | leaven |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: ζύμη Sense: leaven. |
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| φύραμα | lump |
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Parse: Noun, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: φύραμα Sense: any substance mixed with water and kneaded. |
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| ζυμοῖ | leavens |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular Root: ζυμόω Sense: to leaven. |
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Greek Commentary for 1 Corinthians 5:6
Not beautiful, not seemly, in view of this plague spot, this cancer on the church. They needed a surgical operation at once instead of boasting and pride (puffed up). Καυχημα Kauchēma is the thing gloried in. [source]
This proverb occurs verbatim in Galatians 5:9. υμη Zumē (leaven) is a late word from ζεω zeō to boil, as is ζυμοω zumoō to leaven. The contraction is regular Some of the members may have argued that one such case did not affect the church as a whole, a specious excuse for negligence that Paul here answers. The emphasis is on the “little” Lump (πυραμα phurama from πυραω phuraō to mix, late word, in the papyri mixing a medical prescription) is a substance mixed with water and kneaded like dough. Compare the pervasive power of germs of disease in the body as they spread through the body. [source]
Not the act, but the subject of boasting; namely, the condition of the Corinthian church. [source]
See on Romans 12:21. A significant term, suggesting the oneness of the Church, and the consequent danger from evil-doers. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 1 Corinthians 5:6
Present imperatives. Note υμη apo and the ablative case. ζυμοω Zumē is from διεστελλετο zumoō and occurs already in Matthew 13:33 in a good sense. For the bad sense See note on 1 Corinthians 5:6. He repeatedly charged Jesus definitely warns the disciples against “the leaven of Herod” (bad politics) and the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees (bad theology and also bad politics). [source]
Why should the Revisers have retained the obsolete wot here, when they have rendered elsewhere, know ye not? See Romans 6:16; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 6:2, etc. The phrase indicates that this cannot be thought of as true. [source]
Not the sinful man, but evil of every kind, in accordance with the more general statement of the leavening, power of evil in 1 Corinthians 5:6. The apostle's metaphor is shaped by the commands concerning the removal of leaven at the passover: Exodus 12:19; Exodus 13:7. Compare Ignatius; “Dispense, therefore, with the evil leaven that has grown old ( παλαιωθεῖσαν ) and that has gone sour ( ἐνοξίσασαν ), and be changed into new leaven which is Jesus Christ” (Epistle to Magnesians, 10). [source]
A proverbial warning, which appears also 1 Corinthians 5:6. It refers, not to the doctrine of the false teachers, but to the false teachers themselves. Comp. Mark 8:15. With the single exception of the parable, Matthew 13:33, leaven, in Scripture, is always a symbol of evil. Comp. Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:19; Exodus 13:3, Exodus 13:7; Exodus 23:18; Leviticus 2:11; Deuteronomy 16:3. This, however, is no warrant for the nonsense which has been deduced from it, as that Jesus' parable of the leaven contains a prophecy of the corruption of Christianity. Because leaven in Scripture is habitually the type of corruption, we are “none the less free to use it in a good sense as Christ did. One figure need not always stand for one and the same thing. The devil is 'a roaring lion,' but Christ is also 'the lion of the tribe of Judah'” (Trench). It is an apt figure of secret, pervading energy, whether bad or good. A new interest is given to the figure by Pasteur's discovery that fermentation is a necessary consequence of the activity and growth of living organisms. A very few of these Judaising intruders are sufficient to corrupt the whole church. [source]
This proverb Paul has in 1 Corinthians 5:6 . It is merely the pervasive power of leaven that is involved in the proverb as in Matthew 13:33 , not the use of leaven as a symbol of evil. [source]