Bible Cross References
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Luke 12:15
And he went on to say to them all, "Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be."
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Matthew 16:12
Then the disciples understood that he was not warning them to guard themselves from the yeast used in bread but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Exodus 12:15-19
15
The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.
16
On the first day and again on the seventh day you are to meet for worship. No work is to be done on those days, but you may prepare food.
17
Keep this festival, because it was on this day that I brought your tribes out of Egypt. For all time to come you must celebrate this day as a festival.
18
From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
19
For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people."
Leviticus 2:11
None of the grain offerings which you present to the LORD may be made with yeast; you must never use yeast or honey in food offered to the LORD.
Mark 8:15
"Take care," Jesus warned them, "and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
Luke 12:1
As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, "Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees---I mean their hypocrisy.
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
6
It is not right for you to be proud! You know the saying, "A little bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise."
7
You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8
Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth.
Galatians 5:9
"It takes only a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise," as they say.
2 Timothy 2:16
Keep away from profane and foolish discussions, which only drive people farther away from God.
2 Timothy 2:17
Such teaching is like an open sore that eats away the flesh. Two men who have taught such things are Hymenaeus and Philetus.