9A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
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Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? …
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)In the former part of this chapter the apostle cautions the Galatians to take heed of the judaizing teachers, who endeavoured to bring them back under the bondage of the law. He had been arguing against them before, and had largely shown how contrary the principles and spirit of those teachers were to the spirit of the gospel; and now this is as it were the general inference or application of all…
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