1 Corinthians 11:19

Improper Conduct At The Lord's Supper

¹⁸ For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. ¹⁹ There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you. ²⁰ Therefore, when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper.

Divisions Among You

It is I

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.

Deuteronomy 13:3

do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes.

Luke 17:1

He said to His disciples, “Offenses will certainly come, but woe to the one they come through!

Acts 20:30

And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.

Titus 3:10

Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning,

Luke 2:35

and a sword will pierce your own soul—that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Acts 5:17

Then the high priest took action. He and all his colleagues, those who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Acts 15:5

But some of the believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses!”

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man to be a plague, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the Roman world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes!

Acts 24:14

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Acts 26:5

They had previously known me for quite some time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.

Acts 28:22

But we would like to hear from you what you think. For concerning this sect, we are aware that it is spoken against everywhere.”

2 Corinthians 13:5-7

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

1 Timothy 4:1-2

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

2 Peter 2:1-2

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.