Bible verses about "denominations" | WPNT

²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me.

¹⁹ For there would really need to be factions among you so that the ‘approved’ ones may be recognized among you.

¹ So then, as the prisoner in the Lord I urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, ² with all humility and courtesy, with patience, bearing with one another in love, ³ taking pains to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit (just as you also were called in one hope of your calling), ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all. ⁷ Now to each one of us the grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift was given. ⁸ That is why He says, “When He ascended into the heights He captured the concentration camp, and distributed gifts to men.” ⁹ (What does ‘He ascended’ imply if not that He also first descended into the interior regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the very one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) ¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints into the work of the ministry, so as to build up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain into the unity of the faith and of the real knowledge of the Son of God, into a complete man, into the resulting full stature of Christ;

²⁰ (Now that mediator is not for just one, but God is one.)

¹⁸ And I further say to you that you are a stone, but on this bedrock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not withstand her.

⁴ Because just as in one body we have many parts, but all the parts do not have the same function, ⁵ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. ⁶ Since we have different spiritual gifts according to the grace that was given us, let us use them : if prophecy, according to the analogy of the Faith; ⁷ if serving, in the serving; if teaching, in the teaching; ⁸ if exhorting, in the exhortation; the sharer, with simplicity; the leader, with diligence; the mercy-shower, with cheerfulness. ⁹ Love is to be genuine: abhorring the malignant; clinging to the good; ¹⁰ showing family affection to one another in brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; ¹¹ not lagging in diligence; serving the Lord with an enthusiastic spirit; ¹² rejoicing in the hope; enduring the affliction; continuing steadfastly in prayer; ¹³ distributing to the needs of the saints; practicing hospitality. ¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Regard each other as being on the same level—do not distinguish the upper classes, but associate with the lower classes; do not exalt yourself. ¹⁷ Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Have regard for things that everyone considers to be good. ¹⁸ If possible, what depends on you, live at peace with everyone. ¹⁹ Dear ones, do not avenge yourselves; rather give place to the wrath; for it is written: “Vengeance is up to me; I will repay”, says the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.” ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with the good.

¹³ Has Christ been divided? It wasn’t Paul who was crucified for you, was it? You weren’t baptized into the name of Paul, were you?

²⁵ But knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself becomes desolate, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

²⁰ “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe into me through their word; ²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me. ²² In fact, the glory that You gave to me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one: ²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me. ²⁴ “Father, those whom You have given to me, I desire that they also may be with me where I am, so that they may observe my glory, which You have given me, because You loved me before the founding of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father! Indeed the world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent me. ²⁶ Yes, I have made Your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

⁴ For when one says, “I am of Paul”, and another, “I am of Apollos”, are you not carnal? ⁵ Who then is Paul, who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow.

¹ Now you, speak the things that suit sound doctrine:

⁹ Anyone who turns aside and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; but whoever continues in Christ’s teaching does have both the Father and the Son.

¹² Now just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, though being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. ¹³ For we also were all baptized into one body by one Spirit—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and were all given to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For in fact the body is not one part but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” it would not therefore cease to be of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” it would not therefore cease to be of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? ¹⁸ But God has really placed the members in the body, each one of them, just as He pleased. ¹⁹ (If the whole were just one member, where would the body be? ²⁰ But in fact the parts are many but the body one.) ²¹ Further, the eye can’t say to the hand, “I don’t need you;” nor again the head to the feet, “I don’t need you.” ²² Much to the contrary, those members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary. ²³ And the parts of the body that we consider to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentables have special modesty, ²⁴ while our presentables don’t need it. Yes, God has blended the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks it, ²⁵ so that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another; ²⁶ and if one member suffers, all the members should suffer along, or if one member is honored, all the members should rejoice along. ²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. ²⁸ And those whom God has appointed in the Church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; after that miracles, then presents of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of languages. ²⁹ All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not miracle workers, are they? ³⁰ All do not have presents of healings, do they? All do not speak languages, do they? All do not interpret, do they? ³¹ But earnestly desire the best gifts. And now I show you a most excellent way.

⁶ I am sadly surprised that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ, to a different gospel ⁷ —it is not a mere variation, but certain people are unsettling you and wanting to distort the Gospel of the Christ. ⁸ Now even if we, or an angel out of heaven, should preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As we have just said, I here emphatically repeat: If anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed!! ¹⁰ Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit (just as you also were called in one hope of your calling), ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine you have learned, and avoid them.

¹² What I mean is that you are individually saying: “I am of Paul”, or “I am of Apollos”, or “I am of Cephas”, or “I am of Christ”! ¹³ Has Christ been divided? It wasn’t Paul who was crucified for you, was it? You weren’t baptized into the name of Paul, were you?

¹⁰ Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored to the same mind and to the same purpose.