1 Corinthians 11:18
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
KJV
πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ συνερχομένων ὑμῶν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀκούω σχίσματα ἐν ὑμῖν ὑπάρχειν, καὶ μέρος τι πιστεύω.
Greek NT
Primum quidem convenientibus vobis in ecclesiam, audio scissuras esse inter vos, et ex parte credo.
Vulgate
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.
ASV
For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
μέρος
meros
noun · 42×
πιστεύω
pisteuo
verb · 241×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
συνέρχομαι
sunerchomai
verb · 31×
σχίσμα
schisma
noun · 8×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὑπάρχω
uparcho
verb · 60×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§752In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical assembly,141 but also the local community142 or the whole universal community of believers.143 These three meanings are inseparable. "The Church" is the People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in local communities and is made real as a liturgical, above all a Eucharistic, assembly. She draws her life…
§1329The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.141 The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,142 above all at the Last S…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:10 — Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind
- 1Cor 1:10 — Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind
- 1Cor 3:3 — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
- 1Cor 3:3 — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
- 1Cor 13:5 — Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
- Acts 11:26 — And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christia
- Acts 14:27 — And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
- Gen 37:2 — These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives
- Rom 16:17 — Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.