1 Corinthians 3:21

3:21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! ¹  For everything belongs to you,

1 Corinthians 5:6

5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast ²  affects ³  the whole batch of dough?

1 Corinthians 5:2

5:2 And you are proud! ⁴  Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this ⁵  from among you?

Colossians 1:18

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 

[3:21]  ¹ tn Grk “so then, let no one boast in men.”

[5:6]  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.

[5:6]  ³ tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”

[5:2]  ⁴ tn Or “are puffed up/arrogant,” the same verb occurring in 4:6, 18.

[5:2]  ⁵ tn Grk “sorrowful, so that the one who did this might be removed.”

[1:18]  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.

[1:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”