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# Your boasting is not good
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"Your boasting is bad"
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# Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole loaf?
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Paul uses this proverb to mean that a small part of something affects the whole thing. In this case, one person who is sinning can harm the entire Christian community. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-proverbs]])
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# Do you not know that a little yeast ... loaf?
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Here Paul uses a rhetorical question to teach his audience. Alternate translation: "You know that a little yeast ... loaf." or "A little yeast ... loaf." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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