14 Bible Verses about Schisms
Most Relevant Verses
that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel."