Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?
Parallel translations
- WEB Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
- KJV Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
- NKJV Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
- NASB Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
- NLT Has Christ been divided into factions? Was I, Paul, crucified for you? Were any of you baptized in the name of Paul? Of course not!
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Quick answer
Paul's three pointed questions show the absurdity of dividing over leaders. Christ alone was crucified for them and into his name alone they were baptized.
Overview
With rhetorical questions Paul dismantles the factions: Christ is not divided, Paul was not crucified for them, and they were baptized into Christ's name, not Paul's. The cross and baptism unite all believers under one Savior. To rally around mere ministers is to forget that salvation belongs wholly to Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Eph 4:5one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
- 2 Cor 11:4For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
- Acts 2:38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 10:48So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
- Acts 19:5On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
- 1 Cor 10:2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
- 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- Gal 1:7which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
- Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
- 1 Cor 6:19–20Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- Acts 8:16For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Rom 14:9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
- 1 Cor 1:15so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.
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