1 Corinthians 11:19 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:19

“For there must be also factions among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.” By “factions,” here he means those which concern not the doctrines, but these present divisions. But even if he had spoken of the doctrinal heresies, not even thus did he give them any handle. For Christ Himself said, “it must needs be that occasions of stumbling come,” Matthew 18:7 not destroying the liberty of the will nor appointing any necessity and compulsion over…