14 Bible Verses about Schisms
Most Relevant Verses
so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
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.
Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.
For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;
Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.
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.
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.
For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”