Romans 16:17

Paul urges believers to watch out for those who cause divisions and stumbling-blocks contrary to sound doctrine, and to turn away from them. It warns that guarding the truth and unity of the church requires vigilance.

Cross-references · 24

• Jude 1:19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
• 2 Th 3:6Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• 2 Tim 3:5holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
• Col 2:8Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
• Titus 3:10Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
• 2 Jn 1:7–11For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
• 2 Th 3:14–15If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
• Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• Phil 3:17Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
• 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
• Gal 1:7–9and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
• 2 Pet 2:1–2But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
• 1 Cor 1:10–13Now 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.
• Matt 18:7“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
• 1 Cor 5:9–11I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• Acts 15:24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
• Phil 3:2–3Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
• Matt 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
• Acts 15:1–5Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
• 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• Luke 17:1He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

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