1 Corinthians 11:18 · KJV
“For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {divisions: or, schisms}”
— 1 Corinthians 11:18
Now in this that I declare {unto you} I praise {you} not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, sects}
1 Corinthians 11 — Context
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
17Now in this that I declare {unto you} I praise {you} not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {divisions: or, schisms}
19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, sects}
20When ye come together therefore into one place, {this} is not to eat the Lord's supper. {this...: or, ye cannot eat}
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}
1 Corinthians 1:10-12
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and {that} there be no divisions among you; but {that} ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. {divisions: Gr. schisms}
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly {that there is} fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 6:1
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?