5:6a Your boasting is not good.

You should not feel proud about your church group.
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⌊Since/Because there is an immoral person in your group,⌋ you should not be talking proudly about yourselves.
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⌊There is an immoral person in your group. But even so,⌋ you are proud of yourselves. This is not good/proper.

5:6b Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Remember: a little bit of yeast can make a lot of dough puff up.
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Remember what it is like when people make bread. They only need to use a small amount of yeast to make all of the bread rise. Bad behavior is like that yeast!
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Don’t you know that even one sinner in your group may cause others to sin?

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