"For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, s…" — 1 Corinthians 11:19

1 Corinthians 11:19 · KJV

“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, sects}”

— 1 Corinthians 11:19

Verse 18

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}

Verse 20

When ye come together therefore into one place, {this} is not to eat the Lord's supper. {this...: or, ye cannot eat}

1 Corinthians 11 — Context

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 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}

For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, sects}

When ye come together therefore into one place, {this} is not to eat the Lord's supper. {this...: or, ye cannot eat}

For in eating every one taketh before {other} his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Cross References

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would {no doubt} have continued with us: but {they went out}, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Titus 3:10

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

Acts 20:30

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Luke 17:1

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe {unto him}, through whom they come!

Deuteronomy 13:3

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

2 Peter 2:1-2

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Matthew 18:7

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

2 Corinthians 13:5-7

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?