so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
Parallel translations
- KJV Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
- BSB so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.
- NKJV lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.
- NASB so that no one would say you were baptized in my name!
- NLT for now no one can say they were baptized in my name.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- John 7:18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
- 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- John 3:28–29You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
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