30 Bible Verses about division

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1 Corinthians 12:25

That there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care for each other:

Jude 1:19

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit.

Luke 12:51

Suppose ye that I am come to send peace upon earth? I tell you, Nay, but rather division.

John 7:43

So there was a division among the people concerning him.

Luke 12:52

For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Mark 3:24

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

John 10:19

This commission have I received of my Father. There was again a division among the Jews, because of these sayings.

Matthew 12:25

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not be established.

Luke 15:12

Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.

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Division » Jesus Christ coming for the purpose of dividing

Matthew 25:31-33

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. And all nations shall be gathered before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats. And he will set the sheep on his right-hand, and the goats on the left.

Matthew 10:33-36

But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I am not come to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law. read more.
And the foes of a man shall be they of his own houshold.

Luke 12:49-53

I am come to send fire on the earth. And what do I desire? That it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with: and how am I straitned till it be accomplished! Suppose ye that I am come to send peace upon earth? I tell you, Nay, but rather division. read more.
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Division » Every kingdom that is divided against itself

Matthew 12:25-28

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not be established. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. read more.
But if it be by the Spirit of God that I cast out devils, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

Luke 11:17-20

But he knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan then be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because ye say, that I cast out devils by Beelzebub. And if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? read more.
Therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

Division » Who is divided

1 Corinthians 3:3-9

For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? read more.
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. But he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour. For we are fellow-labourers of God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

1 Corinthians 11:17-21

But in this which I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first, when ye come together in the church, I hear there are schisms among you, (and I partly believe it. For there must be heresies also among you, that the approved among you may be manifest). read more.
Therefore when ye come together into one place, it is not eating the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper, and one is hungry, another drinks largely.

Division » Not being divided

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together, in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared to me of you, my brethren, by them of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. read more.
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? I thank God, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius: Lest any should say, that I had baptized in my own name. I baptized also the family of Stephanas. I know not that I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; but not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

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