Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
Parallel translations
- KJV Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
- BSB Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into 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 he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 10:48He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
- Acts 19:5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
- 1 Cor 10:2and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
- 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
- Gal 1:7and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
- Matt 28:19Go, 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 6:19–20Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
- Acts 8:16for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Rom 14:9For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
- 1 Cor 1:15so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
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