30 Bible Verses about division
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that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.
I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;
For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.
These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no; but rather division.
For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe.
and if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand;
I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.
And when he was performing the priest's office in the order of his class before God, it fell to his lot,
For from this time there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two shall be divided against three;
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;
Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
a father against a son, and a son against a father; a mother against the daughter, and a daughter against the mother; a mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.
and all the nations shall be assembled before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such miracles? And there was a division among them.
But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed; and no city or house divided against itself can stand.
I have come to send a fire on the earth; and what will I if it is already kindled?
And the youngest of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls to me; and he divided to them his living.
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 on the throne of his glory, and all the nations shall be assembled before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and he shall place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left.
and whoever denies me before men, him will I also deny before my Father in heaven. Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword. I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a bride against her mother-in-law; read more.
and a man's enemies shall be those of his own house.
I have come to send a fire on the earth; and what will I if it is already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it is fully accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no; but rather division. read more.
For from this time there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two shall be divided against three; a father against a son, and a son against a father; a mother against the daughter, and a daughter against the mother; a mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.
Division » Every kingdom that is divided against itself
But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed; and no city or house divided against itself can stand. If Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. read more.
But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is desolated, and house falls upon house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. But if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? they, therefore, shall be your judges. read more.
But if by a finger of God I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Division » Who is divided
for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men? For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men? Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave. read more.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow; so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow. He that plants and he that waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his labor. For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.
But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe. For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you. read more.
When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's supper, for each one in eating takes his supper before the rest, and one is hungry and another drunk.
Division » Not being divided
I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will. For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. I mean this; that each one of you says I indeed 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 you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius; that no one may say that I baptized in my name. And I also baptized the family of Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.
Topics on Division
Division Among Christians
Acts 15:1-5AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.
Divisions Of Opinion
1 Corinthians 1:10I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.
Divisions, Contrary To
1 Corinthians 1:13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
Weakness In Division
Luke 11:17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is desolated, and house falls upon house.