13 Bible Verses about Schisms

that there might be no disunion in the body, but that all the members might entertain the same anxious care for one another's welfare.

for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, and I believe that there is some truth in it.

Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?

No one ever mends an old cloak with a patch of newly woven cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away some of the old, and a worse hole would be made.

For I came to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you that I came to bring dissension.

So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.

This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.

Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony--all of you--and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.

For when some one says, "I belong to Paul," and another says, "I belong to Apollos," is not this the way men of the world speak?

enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings;