1 Corinthians 11:18
To begin with, I am told - and I believe there is some truth in it - that when you meet at a church there are divisions among you.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
19For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.
1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen - that a man has taken his father’s wife!
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:18-23
Profanation of the Lord's Supper. ( a. d. 57.) 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 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. 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating every one taketh… Read the whole commentary →