Quotes About Division

Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesusí message.

So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.

Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

As soon as he had said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.

My brothers, some from Chloeís household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?

so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.

For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.