1Cor 1:10 | PNT | STEP | Now I beseech you, brethren . How earnest and imploring is the Apostle's exhortation that they should maintain unity! That ye all speak the same thing . Have no distinctive party declarations. This is violated in the modern sectarian symbols and confessions. [That] there be no divisions among you . "No schisms", in the Greek. If there were none, and all "were perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment", all would "speak the same thing". There would be no variance in their declarations. It is evident, from what follows, that, while the Corinthians had not separated into various church organizations, they had formed several parties within the church ( ). Organized sects, claiming to be "branches of the church", were unknown till centuries later.

1 Corinthians 1:10

Now I beseech you, brethren. How earnest and imploring is the Apostle's exhortation that they should maintain unity!

That ye all speak the same thing. Have no distinctive party declarations. This is violated in the modern sectarian symbols and confessions. [That] there be no divisions among you. "No schisms", in the Greek. If there were none, and all "were perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment", all would "speak the same thing". There would be no variance in their declarations. It is evident, from what follows, that, while the Corinthians had not separated into various church organizations, they had formed several parties within the church (1Co 1:12). Organized sects, claiming to be "branches of the church", were unknown till centuries later.