5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 2 affects 3 the whole batch of dough?
1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn 6 from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 7
1 tn Grk “so then, let no one boast in men.”
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.
3 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”
4 tn Or “are puffed up/arrogant,” the same verb occurring in 4:6, 18.
5 tn Grk “sorrowful, so that the one who did this might be removed.”
6 tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.
7 tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”