Thematic Bible: Reprove
Thematic Bible
Strife » Ministers should » Reprove
For I have been informed about you, my brothers and sisters, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are quarrels and factions among you.
Verse Concepts
You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?
Verse Concepts
But in what I instruct [you] next I do not commend [you], because when you meet together, it is not for the better but for the worse. For in the first place, when you assemble as a congregation, I hear that there are cliques (divisions and factions) among you; and I in part believe it,