5 Bible Verses about Leaven

Then they understood that he was warning them not against yeast but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour, till it all rose."

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough? You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough?

That kind of persuasion never came from him who called you! A little yeast will make all the dough rise.

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."