11 Bible Verses about Sects

They knew me from the beginning. They could testify that I was from the strictest sect of our religion and I lived as a Pharisee.

And the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus disciples. They asked: Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?

The believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stated: It is needed to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.

Then the high priest rose up, and all those of the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with zeal (indignation).

This I confess to you that according to The Way, which they call a sect, I serve the God of our fathers. I believe all the things written in the law and the prophets.

We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up sedition (resists lawful authority) among all the Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

They said to him: We have not had letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers have come to us to give an account or say any evil about you. We desire to hear your opinion concerning this sect. We have knowledge that it is attacked in all places.

You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men? While one said, I belong to Paul; and another, I belong to Apollos; are you not fleshly human beings?

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects,