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1 Corinthians 5:6-7

1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 Corinthians 5:6 leaven. Fermented dough. Leftover dough was often added to a new lump of dough. By analogy, sin that goes undisciplined by the church will spread its destructive consequences throughout the whole fellowship.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The general need of purification in the Christian congregations:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD. KNOW YE NOT THAT. LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP? 'Your glorying is not good' -'Your pride in your church is lamentably out of place' (Phi); 'Your boasting is unsee...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    You boast and glory because you have men of parts amongst you, persons whom the world count wise; YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD; what do you glory for, when you have such a scandalous person amongst you,...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    Your glorying is not good. [Their glorying was sinful enough at best, but much more so when it was so inopportune.] _Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?_...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IMPORTANT SCANDALS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH (5:1-6:20). Having dealt with the central spiritual concern which has been to do with their divisiveness over secondary matters, over ‘the wisdom of words...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 5:6. YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD is out of place, unseemly. KNOW YE NOT THAT A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LAMP? ‘'Tis only one case, ye say; but are ye so ignorant as not to know t...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    NOT GOOD (ου καλον). 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 i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Corinthians 5:1. _There is fornication among you._ Πορνεια designates every species of illicit intercourse between the sexes. Our Saxon word _forliggian_ properly expresses fornication, but here adu...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    IT IS NOT RIGHT. They were proud of their (false) teacher, and though he understood the gospel better than Paul; and were (perhaps) proud of the way this man defended the incestuous relationship. YOU...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _It is reported that there is fornication among you._ GROSS SCANDALS 1. May arise within the Church. 2. Occasion grievous reproach. 3. Should be instantly investigated and removed. (_J. Lyth, D. D...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _Your glorying is not good._ Your boasting yourselves in your worldly wisdom, which makes you say, "I am of Paul," "I of Apollos," is evil and out of place. It were better for you to cast down the eye...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER V. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle proceeds from the schism of the Corinthians to deal with the scandal caused by incest among them: he blames them for allowing one living openly in i...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ THE CASE OF SHAMEFUL SIN (Also in 2 Corinthians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 7:8.) 1 Corinthians 5:1. COMMONLY.—“_Actually_” (; widely accepted). AMONG YOU.—Joi

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 _Excommunication of an incestuous offender._ 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 IT IS REPORTED. The abruptness with which the subject is introduced shows THE intensity of St. Pa

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians, chapter 5. The Corinthian letter of Paul was mainly corrective. The Corinthian church had innumerable problems. Those from the house of Chloe had reporte...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 4:19;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 infect...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    As if the apostle had said, "You Corinthians are prone to pride yourselves, in the numbers of wise and wealthy men that are found among you; you glory that Corinth is the eye of Greece, and Greece the...

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