1 Corinthians 11:19
New International Version
No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.

New Living Translation
But, of course, there must be divisions among you so that you who have God’s approval will be recognized!

English Standard Version
for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

Berean Standard Bible
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

Berean Literal Bible
For also it behooves there to be factions among you, so that also the approved should become evident among you.

King James Bible
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

New King James Version
For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

New American Standard Bible
For there also have to be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

NASB 1995
For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

NASB 1977
For there must also be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may have become evident among you.

Legacy Standard Bible
For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

Amplified Bible
for [doubtless] there have to be factions among you, so that those who are of approved character may be clearly recognized among you.

Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

American Standard Version
For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
There are going to be contentions among you, that those who are approved among you may be known.

Contemporary English Version
You are bound to argue with each other, but it is easy to see which of you have God's approval.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be made manifest among you.

English Revised Version
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Factions have to exist in order to make it clear who the genuine believers among you are.

Good News Translation
No doubt there must be divisions among you so that the ones who are in the right may be clearly seen.)

International Standard Version
Of course, there must be factions among you to show which of you are genuine!

Literal Standard Version
for it is also necessary for sects to be among you, that those approved may become visible among you;

Majority Standard Bible
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

New American Bible
there have to be factions among you in order that [also] those who are approved among you may become known.

NET Bible
For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, there have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine.

New Heart English Bible
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For there must be also heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

Weymouth New Testament
For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling worth among you.

World English Bible
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

Young's Literal Translation
for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

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Context
Sharing in the Lord's Supper
18First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. 19And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved. 20Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:3
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Matthew 18:7
Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Luke 17:1
Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

1 Corinthians 11:20
Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 5:20
idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,


Treasury of Scripture

For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

there.

Matthew 18:7
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Luke 17:1
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

Acts 20:30
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

heresies.

Acts 5:17
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

Acts 15:5
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

Acts 24:5,14
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: …

which.

Deuteronomy 13:3
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Luke 2:35
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

2 Corinthians 13:5-7
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? …

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1 Corinthians 11
1. He reproves them, because in holy assemblies,
4. their men prayed with their heads covered,
6. and women with their heads uncovered;
17. and because generally their meetings were not for the better, but for the worse;
21. as, namely, in profaning with their own feast the Lord's supper.
25. Lastly, he calls them to the first institution thereof.














(19) For there must be also heresies.--Better, For there must be also sects. There have been many attempts to explain where lies the difference between the "divisions" of the former verse and the "sects" of this verse. From all that we know of the Apostolic Church it is clear that neither of these words can mean sects separated from the Church, but "parties" in the Church. Christ had foretold (Matthew 18:7) that "stumbling-blocks," or "scandals," must arise in the Church, and it is possible that our Lord on some occasion spoke of these as "sects" (Justin Martyr attributes the use of this very word to our Lord); and St. Paul, possibly, uses the word here because it was the one traditionally reported as having been used by Christ in some of His unrecorded utterances. Christ has foretold that in the divine economy of permission such divisions will arise. They are allowed because this is a state of continual judgment; and the existence of such "offences" will be God's means of manifesting those who are void of offence, and those who are not.

Verse 19. - There must be also heresies among you. It results from the inevitable decrees of the Divine providence. "It is impossible but that offences will come" (Luke 17:11). Heresies. The word does not mean "erroneous opinions," but party factions. Originally the word only means "a choice," and is not used in a bad sense; but since the opinionativeness of men pushes "a choice" into a "party," and since it is the invariable tendency of a party to degenerate into a "faction," the word soon acquires a bad sense (see its use in Acts 5:17; Acts 15:5; Acts 24:5, 14: 28:22; Galatians 5:20; Titus 3:10; 2 Peter 2:1; and Gieseler, 'Church Hist.,' 1:149). The mutually railing factions, which in their Church newspapers and elsewhere bandy about their false and rival charges of "heresy," are illustrating the virulence of the very sin which they are professing to denounce - the sin of factiousness. That they which are approved may be made manifest among you. Similarly St. John (1 John 2:19) speaks of the aberrations of false teachers as destined to prove that they did not belong to the true Church. Good is educed out of seeming evil (James 1:3; 1 Peter 1:6, 7). Approved; standing the test (dokimoi), the opposite of the "reprobate" (adokimoi) of 1 Corinthians 9:27.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
And
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

indeed,
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

there must
δεῖ (dei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1163: Third person singular active present of deo; also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is Necessary.

be
εἶναι (einai)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

differences
αἱρέσεις (haireseis)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 139: From haireomai; properly, a choice, i.e. a party or disunion.

among
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

to
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

show
φανεροὶ (phaneroi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5318: Apparent, clear, visible, manifest; adv: clearly. From phaino; shining, i.e. Apparent; neuter publicly, externally.

which
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

of
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

are approved.
δόκιμοι (dokimoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1384: Approved, acceptable, tried. From dokeo; properly, acceptable, i.e. Approved.


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