Bible Verses about “dividing a church”
Found 50 verses (ordered by relevance) about “dividing a church” in the KJV version of the Bible
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”
“¶ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations.”
“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
“[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”
“For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.”
“Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.”
“I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.”
“Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.”
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.”
“But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”
“For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.”
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
“Neither give place to the devil.”
“Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.”
“¶ ‹Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.›”
“One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”
“He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.”
“But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.”
“And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.”
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”
“For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.”
“Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.”
“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
“Let not then your good be evil spoken of:”
“For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.”
“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;”
“For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.”
“For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.”
“¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”
“For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:”
“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;”
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”
“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
“Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
“¶ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,”
“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”
“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:”
“A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;”
“That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;”
“From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”
“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism,”
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”