Unity


10. When contentions & disputes are necessary:
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--To refute false doctrine or serious wrong behaviour

JOH 7:43. So there was a division among the people because of him.

ACT 15:1. And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

ACT 15:2. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

GAL 2:11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

GAL 2:12. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

GAL 2:13. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

GAL 2:14. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Important chapters on unity: Psa 133; Joh 17; 1COR 12; Eph 4; Rom 12.