5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 1 affects 2 the whole batch of dough?
10:23 “Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” 3 but not everything builds others up. 4
11:17 Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
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.”
3 sn “Everything is lawful.” Here again Paul cites certain slogans the Corinthians used to justify their behavior (cf. 6:12-13; 7:1; 8:1, 4). Paul agrees with the slogans in part, but corrects them to show how the Corinthians have misused these ideas.
4 tn Grk “builds up.” The object “others” is not expressed but is implied, as v. 24 shows. Paul picks up a theme he introduced at the start of this section of the letter (8:1).