¹⁰Now ^aI exhort you, ^bbrothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all ¹agree and that there be no ²^cdivisions among you, but that you be ³made complete in ^dthe same mind and in the same judgment.

¹¹For I have been informed concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.

¹²Now I mean this, that ^aeach one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of ^bApollos,” and “I of ^cCephas,” and “I of Christ.”

¹³¹Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you ^abaptized ²in the name of Paul?

¹⁴¹I thank God that I ^abaptized none of you except ^bCrispus and ^cGaius,

¹⁵so that no one would say you were baptized ¹in my name.

¹⁶Now I did baptize also the ^ahousehold of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.

¹⁷^aFor Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, ^bnot in wisdom of word, so that the cross of Christ will not be made empty.

Christ the Power and Wisdom of God

¹⁸For the word of the cross is ^afoolishness to ^bthose who ¹are perishing, but to us who ²are being saved, it is ^cthe power of God.

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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.

Footnotes

1Lit speak the same thing
2Lit schisms
3Or united
1Or Christ has been divided! or Christ is divided!
2Lit into
1Two early mss I give thanks that
1Lit into
1Or perish
2Or are saved

Cross references

a Rom 12:1
b Rom 1:13
c 1 Cor 11:18
d Rom 12:16; Phil 1:27
a Matt 23:8–10; 1 Cor 3:4
b Acts 18:24; 1 Cor 3:22
c John 1:42; 1 Cor 3:22; 9:5; 15:5
a Matt 28:19; Acts 2:38
a Acts 18:8
b Acts 18:8
c Rom 16:23
a 1 Cor 16:15, 17
a John 4:2; Acts 10:48
b 1 Cor 2:1, 4, 13; 2 Cor 10:10; 11:6
a 1 Cor 1:21, 23, 25; 2:14; 4:10
b Acts 2:47; 2 Cor 2:15; 4:3; 2 Thess 2:10
c Rom 1:16; 1 Cor 1:24