44 Bible Verses about division
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that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.
But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.
For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.
These are they who set themselves apart, natural men, not having the Spirit.
Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:
And I will put a separation between my people and thy people; to-morrow shall this sign be.
For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it.
And if a house has become divided against itself, that house cannot subsist.
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.
And it came to pass, as he fulfilled his priestly service before God in the order of his course,
for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:
Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?
And if a kingdom has become divided against itself, that kingdom cannot subsist.
For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
from twenty years and upward, all that go forth to military service in Israel: ye shall number them according to their hosts, thou and Aaron.
and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
and divide the prey into halves, between them that conducted the war, who went out to the battle, and the whole assembly.
and his host, even those that were numbered of them, fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that same day it came to pass that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not subsist.
and his host, even those that were numbered of them, thirty-five thousand four hundred.
and for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all the instruments of service in the house of Jehovah:
And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled?
and stand in the sanctuary for the classes of the fathers' houses, for your brethren, the children of the people, and according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the Levites;
and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty-four thousand four hundred.
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
and over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls to me. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.
The eighth for the eighth month was Sibbechai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
From Thematic Bible
Division » Jesus Christ coming for the purpose of dividing
But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of glory, and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in the heavens. Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword. For I have 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 they of his household shall be a man's enemies.
I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished! Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division: read more.
for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three: father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Division » Every kingdom that is divided against itself
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not subsist. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom subsist? And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, your sons, by whom do they cast them out? For this reason they shall be your judges. read more.
But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then indeed the kingdom of God is come upon you.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a house set against a house falls; and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub. But if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons by whom do they cast them out? For this reason they shall be your judges. read more.
But if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.
Division » Who is divided
for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men? Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each. read more.
I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase. So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase. But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse. For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it. For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. read more.
When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
Division » Not being divided
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion. For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you. But I speak of this, that each of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. read more.
Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul? I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius, that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name. Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other. For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.
Topics on Division
Division Among Christians
Acts 15:1-5And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Division Of Waters
Genesis 1:6-7And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.
Divisions Of Opinion
1 Corinthians 1:10Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.
Divisions, Contrary To
1 Corinthians 1:13Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?
Weakness In Division
Luke 11:17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a house set against a house falls;
