1 Corinthians 11:18-20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 First of all, I hear that when you meet as a church there are divisions among you, and to a degree I believe it;(A) 19 there have to be factions among you in order that [also] those who are approved among you may become known.[a] 20 When you meet in one place, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper,
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- 11:19 That…those who are approved among you may become known: Paul situates their divisions within the context of the eschatological separation of the authentic from the inauthentic and the final revelation of the difference. The notion of authenticity-testing recurs in the injunction to self-examination in view of present and future judgment (1 Cor 11:28–32).
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