For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
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Gill's Exposition
When ye come together therefore into one place,.... Though does not signify so much the unity of the place, as of the persons meeting together, and their conjunction; so the phrase is used by the…
Barnes' Notes
For there must be - It is necessary (δεῖ dei); it is to he expected; there are reasons why there should be. What these reasons are he states in the close of the verse; compare Mat 18:7; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe…
Adam Clarke
There must be also heresies - Αἱρεσεις· Not a common consent of the members of the Church, either in the doctrines of the Gospel, or in the ceremonies of the Christian religion. Their difference in…
In this passage the apostle sharply rebukes them for much greater disorders than the former, in their partaking of the Lord's supper, which was commonly done in the first ages, as the ancients tell…
Cambridge Bible
heresies Sects, Tyndale. Rotten(i.e. factions), Luther. This word is variously translated in our version. In the Acts (Act 5:17; Act 15:5; Act 24:5; Act 28:22) it is usually translated sect. But in…
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