¹⁰Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion. ¹¹For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you. ¹²But I speak of this, that each of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. ¹³Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?

¹⁴I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name. ¹⁶Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other.

¹⁷For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain. ¹⁸For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God’s power.

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1 Corinthians 1:17: For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

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