Matthew 16:6 Cross References - NSB

⁶ Jesus said: »Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.«

¹⁵ »You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ »You shall have a holy assembly on the first day. There should be another holy assembly on the seventh day. No work at all will be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person that alone may be prepared by you. ¹⁷ »You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance. ¹⁸ »In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ »There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

¹¹ »‘Every grain offering you bring to Jehovah must be made without yeast. Do not use yeast or honey in food offered to Jehovah.

¹² Then they realized it was not the leaven of bread he had in mind. It was the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹⁵ He ordered them to be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

¹ Thousands of people in the crowd were gathered together so much that they bumped into one another. He said to his disciples: »First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

¹⁵ Jesus said: »Be careful, do not covet, for life does not come from your possessions.«

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough? ⁷ Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. ⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ⁹ A little leaven, leavens (ferments) the whole lump.

¹⁶ But avoid worldly and empty discussion, for it will lead to further ungodliness. ¹⁷ This kind of talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus.