1 Corinthians 12:17
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?
1 Corinthians 5:6
5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 1 affects 2 the whole batch of dough?
1 Corinthians 14:23
14:23 So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?
1 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.
2 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”