Bible Cross References
for whereas
1 Corinthians 1:11
For some people from Chloe's family have told me quite plainly, my friends, that there are quarrels among you.
1 Corinthians 6:1-8
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If any of you have a dispute with another Christian, how dare you go before heathen judges instead of letting God's people settle the matter?
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Don't you know that God's people will judge the world? Well, then, if you are to judge the world, aren't you capable of judging small matters?
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Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more, then, the things of this life!
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If such matters come up, are you going to take them to be settled by people who have no standing in the church?
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Shame on you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow Christians.
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Instead, one Christian goes to court against another and lets unbelievers judge the case!
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The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?
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Instead, you yourselves wrong one another and rob one another, even other believers!
1 Corinthians 11:18
In the first place, I have been told that there are opposing groups in your meetings; and this I believe is partly true.
2 Corinthians 12:20
I am afraid that when I get there I will find you different from what I would like you to be and you will find me different from what you would like me to be. I am afraid that I will find quarreling and jealousy, hot tempers and selfishness, insults and gossip, pride and disorder.
Galatians 5:15
But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.
Galatians 5:19-21
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What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy, and indecent actions;
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in worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups;
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they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.
James 3:16
Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder and every kind of evil.
James 4:1
Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.
James 4:2
You want things, but you cannot have them, so you are ready to kill; you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it.
and walk
Hosea 6:7
"But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them.
Mark 7:21
For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,
Mark 7:22
commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly---
Ephesians 2:2
At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God.
Ephesians 2:3
Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.
Ephesians 4:22-24
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So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to---the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.
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Your hearts and minds must be made completely new,
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and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.
1 Peter 4:2
From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires.