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100 Bible Verses about Denominations

2 John 1:9 ESV / 3,232 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 3,043 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 1:12-13 ESV / 2,774 helpful votes

What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

Ephesians 4:4-5 ESV / 2,668 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Titus 2:1 ESV / 2,630 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2,513 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2,495 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 2,451 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 12:4-21 ESV / 2,400 helpful votes

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. ...

Matthew 12:25 ESV / 2,382 helpful votes

Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.

Galatians 1:6-10 ESV / 2,232 helpful votes

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV / 2,027 helpful votes

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ...

John 17:20-26 ESV / 2,010 helpful votes

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. ...

1 Corinthians 3:4-7 ESV / 1,964 helpful votes

For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 1:13 ESV / 1,952 helpful votes

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

Ephesians 4:1-13 ESV / 1,739 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1,684 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 1,460 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

John 8:32 ESV / 1,411 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 1,380 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 1,379 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,372 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 1,351 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Acts 2:47 ESV / 1,333 helpful votes

Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

John 3:16 ESV / 1,314 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 17:17 ESV / 1,309 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

1 Corinthians 1:10-13 ESV / 1,301 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

Acts 2:39 ESV / 1,300 helpful votes

For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 1,299 helpful votes

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 1,284 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

John 1:1 ESV / 1,226 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 1,185 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

1 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 1,134 helpful votes

As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

John 11:52 ESV / 1,115 helpful votes

And not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 1,101 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 1,093 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 1,077 helpful votes

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ESV / 1,060 helpful votes

And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

John 17:21 ESV / 1,054 helpful votes

That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 14:6 ESV / 1,048 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 1,040 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 1,033 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1,009 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 17:20-23 ESV / 989 helpful votes

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 979 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 953 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 949 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

1 Corinthians 3:7 ESV / 947 helpful votes

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 874 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 1:2 ESV / 872 helpful votes

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 872 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 872 helpful votes

For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

Acts 2:2 ESV / 872 helpful votes

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

John 3:2 ESV / 872 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 871 helpful votes

Not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

Romans 16:2 ESV / 871 helpful votes

That you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.

John 1:2 ESV / 871 helpful votes

He was in the beginning with God.

John 14:2 ESV / 870 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

Matthew 15:13 ESV / 870 helpful votes

He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

Proverbs 14:2 ESV / 869 helpful votes

Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 861 helpful votes

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Ephesians 1:22 ESV / 859 helpful votes

And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,

Romans 16:16 ESV / 839 helpful votes

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Hebrews 10:2 ESV / 818 helpful votes

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

Matthew 15:2 ESV / 816 helpful votes

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”

Matthew 7:2 ESV / 816 helpful votes

For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Revelation 22:18-19 ESV / 809 helpful votes

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Ephesians 1:22-23 ESV / 774 helpful votes

And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 765 helpful votes

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Revelation 1:11 ESV / 755 helpful votes

Saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 718 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 16:1 ESV / 717 helpful votes

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 712 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

James 2:26 ESV / 710 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 707 helpful votes

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

2 Corinthians 1:1 ESV / 696 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

1 Thessalonians 2:14 ESV / 671 helpful votes

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 664 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

John 17:25 ESV / 655 helpful votes

O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

1 Corinthians 11:19 ESV / 617 helpful votes

For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

Acts 20:7 ESV / 591 helpful votes

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 579 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 578 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Job 42:11 ESV / 559 helpful votes

Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 556 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Philippians 1:15-18 ESV / 556 helpful votes

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 556 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 554 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

1 Timothy 6:2-5 ESV / 542 helpful votes

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

1 Timothy 1:3-5 ESV / 539 helpful votes

As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Galatians 1:6-7 ESV / 539 helpful votes

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:11-16 ESV / 539 helpful votes

For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. ...

Acts 20:29-30 ESV / 539 helpful votes

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Acts 15:1 ESV / 538 helpful votes

But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 537 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Galatians 3:20 ESV / 523 helpful votes

Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.

Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 464 helpful votes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 463 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

2 John 1:9-11 ESV / 443 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

1 Peter 1:22-25 ESV / 431 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

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