You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

Jesus said to them, "Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing among yourselves about not having any bread? What little faith you have!

And what about the seven loaves for the four thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

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.

"Take care," Jesus warned them, "and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

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.

It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises."

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."

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.

Do not be fooled. "Bad companions ruin good character."

Such teaching is like an open sore that eats away the flesh. Two men who have taught such things are Hymenaeus and Philetus.