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Your boasting is not good. Don`t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
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Pride Blinds the Church
Commentators unanimously point out that the Corinthians' boasting was dangerously misplaced. They were proud of their spiritual status while tolerating a grievous sin. This pride blinded them to their true spiritual condition, showing that boasting is often a sign that we are overlooking serious faults that require humility and repentance.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your glorying. Your boasting; or confidence in your present condition as if you were eminent in purity and piety.
Is not good
Not good (ου καλον). Not beautiful, not seemly, in view of this plague spot, this cancer on the church. They needed a surgical ope…
19th Century
Anglican
Your glorying is not good.—This possibly refers to some boasting about their spiritual state in the letter that had reach…
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Paul illustrates Christian holiness and discipline by the OT teaching that no yeast was allowed in the bread eaten at the Passover feast. Yeast in …
16th Century
Protestant
Your glorying is not good. He condemns their glorying, not simply because they exalted themselves beyond what is lawful for humans, but be…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your glorying is not good Their glorying in their outward flourishing condition, in their riches and wealth, and in …
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The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, ignored by the Corinthians. Party spirit and a false notion of Christian liberty seem to have saved the offen…
13th Century
Catholic
After reminding the Corinthians of two crimes—namely, the fornicator's and that of those who condoned his sin—the Apostle now censures both. He fir…
