1 Corinthians 1:10-17 - Divisions In The Church At Corinth

¹⁰ Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude. ¹¹ For Chloe's people inform me that you are quarrelling. ¹² By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ." ¹³ Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized? ¹⁴ I am thankful now that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ so that no one can say you were baptized in my name. ¹⁶ (Well, I did baptize the household of Stephanas, but no one else, as far as I remember.) ¹⁷ Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!