For the disclosure was made to me about you, my brothers, by those of the house of Chloe, that dissensions exist among you.

(1 Cor. 1:10-13) When Paul wrote these words the members of the congregation in Corinth were not working together in unity. Rather they were following men with the thought in mind that these men somehow deserved their allegiance at the expense of cultivating unity by all speaking in agreement and being of the same mind.