Thematic Bible: Divisions
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Babylon » Empire of » Divisions
He has said, "You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest." Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
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Divisions » Weaken
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
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For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.
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Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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Divisions » Condemned in the church
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.
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For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe's people, that there are quarrels among you. Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ." Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
Divisions » Are contrary to the » Unity of Christ
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
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Divisions » Unbecoming in the church
whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
Divisions » Are contrary to the » Spirit of the primitive church
But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.
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Divisions » Forbidden in the church
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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Divisions » Are proof of a carnal spirit
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
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Divisions » Are contrary to the » Desire of Christ
that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
Divisions » Evil of, illustrated
Divisions » Avoid those who cause
Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
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Divisions » Are contrary to the » Purpose of Christ
Earth » Early » Divisions
When He separated the sons of
He set the boundaries of the peoples
Judea, modern » Divisions » Under » Roman
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
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the Macedonian empire » Predictions respecting » Divisions » Ruled by » Strangers
But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.
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Time » Of the spirit delay in use of » Divisions
“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
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who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
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and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
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Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
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But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
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with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him
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but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
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