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Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
(Romans 16:17 WEB)
For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
(Romans 16:18 WEB)
For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
(Romans 16:19 WEB)
And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
(Romans 16:20 WEB)
Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
(Romans 16:21 WEB)
I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
(Romans 16:22 WEB)
Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
(Romans 16:23 WEB)
Now I beg you, brothers, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
(1 Corinthians 1:10 WEB)
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
(1 Corinthians 1:11 WEB)
Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."
(1 Corinthians 1:12 WEB)
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
(1 Corinthians 1:13 WEB)
I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
(1 Corinthians 1:14 WEB)
so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
(1 Corinthians 1:15 WEB)
(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)
(1 Corinthians 1:16 WEB)
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
(1 Corinthians 1:17 WEB)
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
(1 Corinthians 1:18 WEB)
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
(1 Corinthians 1:19 WEB)
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
(1 Corinthians 1:20 WEB)
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
(1 Corinthians 1:21 WEB)
For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
(1 Corinthians 1:22 WEB)
but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
(1 Corinthians 1:23 WEB)
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
(1 Corinthians 1:24 WEB)
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
(1 Corinthians 1:25 WEB)
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
(1 Corinthians 1:26 WEB)
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
(1 Corinthians 1:27 WEB)
and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
(1 Corinthians 1:28 WEB)
that no flesh should boast before God.
(1 Corinthians 1:29 WEB)
But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
(1 Corinthians 1:30 WEB)
that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
(1 Corinthians 1:31 WEB)
For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
(1 Corinthians 11:18 WEB)
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
(Galatians 5:16 WEB)
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
(Galatians 5:17 WEB)
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
(Galatians 5:18 WEB)
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
(Galatians 5:19 WEB)
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
(Galatians 5:20 WEB)
envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God .
(Galatians 5:21 WEB)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
(Galatians 5:22 WEB)
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
(Galatians 5:23 WEB)
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
(Galatians 5:24 WEB)
If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
(Galatians 5:25 WEB)
Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
(Galatians 5:26 WEB)
He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
(Ephesians 4:10 WEB)
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
(Ephesians 4:11 WEB)
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
(Ephesians 4:12 WEB)
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
(Ephesians 4:13 WEB)
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
(Ephesians 4:14 WEB)
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
(Ephesians 4:15 WEB)
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
(Ephesians 4:16 WEB)
But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Jude 1:17 WEB)
They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
(Jude 1:18 WEB)
These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
(Jude 1:19 WEB)
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
(Jude 1:20 WEB)
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
(Jude 1:21 WEB)
