5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 2 affects 3 the whole batch of dough?
[3:21] 1 tn Grk “so then, let no one boast in men.”
[5:6] 2 sn In this passage (5:6-8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1-5 and mentioned again in 5:13.
[5:6] 3 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”