Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Cause
Offences
Bible References
Mark
Philippians 3:17
Follow my example, brothers, all of you, and notice those who follow the pattern we have set you.
2 Thessalonians 3:14
If anyone refuses to obey what we have said in this letter, mark the man and do not have anything to do with him, to make him feel ashamed.
Cause
Acts 15:1
Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.
1 Corinthians 1:10
But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?
1 Corinthians 11:18
For, in the first place, when you meet as a congregation, I hear that you divide into sets, and in a measure I believe it.
Galatians 2:4
to gratify the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy upon the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery again.
Philippians 3:2
Look out for those dogs, those mischief-makers, with their amputation!
Colossians 2:8
Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.
2 Peter 2:1
There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
1 John 2:19
They have gone out from our number, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to make it clear that none of them really belonged to us that they withdrew.
2 John 1:7
For many impostors have gone out into the world??en who do not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in human form. That is the mark of the impostor and the Antichrist.
Jude 1:19
These are the men who create division; they are animal and devoid of the Spirit.
Offences
Matthew 18:7
Alas for the world for such hindrances! They have to come, but alas for the man who causes them!
Luke 17:1
And he said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that hindrances should arise, but alas for the man who causes them!
And
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.
1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.
1 Timothy 6:3
Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching
2 Timothy 3:5
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
Titus 3:10
If a man is inclined to a sect, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him.
2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning.