13 Bible Verses about Schisms

that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another.

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.

Christ has been divided up! But was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

But no one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat, for the patch will tear away from the coat, and make the hole worse than ever.

For I have come to turn a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? Not peace, I tell you, but discord!

So the people were divided about him,

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

These words caused a fresh division of opinion among the Jews.

I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

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.

For when one man says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another, "I am a follower of Apollos," are you not simply human?

idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit,