Crispus and Gaius, so that none of you can say that you were baptized in my name. 16 Well, I did also baptize the household of Stephanas; for the rest, I do not recall whether I baptized anyone else. 17 For Christ did not send me to perform baptisms, but to proclaim the gospel—not with clever rhetoric lest the cross of Christ should be nullified. A key word in this passage is splits (v. 10; Greek schismata). We risk losing the point if we translate the Greek by a more formal word such as divisions,
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