13 Bible Verses about Schisms
Most Relevant Verses
that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.
For in the first place, when ye come together in assembly of the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it;
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized the name of Paul?
No one putteth a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment; for the piece that filleth in teareth away from the garment, and a worse rent is made.
For I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter with her mother, and a bride with her motherinlaw;
Think ye that I came to give peace in the earth? I tell you, nay, but rather division.
Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs. And there was a division among them.
But I exhort your brethren, to mark those who are causing divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned; and avoid them.
But I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [like common] men?
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, rivalry, outbursts of wrath, cabals, divisions, factions,