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I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
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A Rebuke to Division
Commentators unanimously agree that Paul's thankfulness was a sharp rebuke to the Corinthians' divisive spirit. He saw it as God's providence that he had baptized so few, as this prevented people from forming factions based on who baptized them. This highlights how seriously God takes church unity and warns against creating spiritual hierarchies based on human leaders.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I thank God, etc. Why Paul did not himself baptize, see 1 Corinthians 1:17.
To him it was now a subject of grateful ref…
I thank God (ευχαριστω τω θεω). See verse 4, though uncertain if τω θεω is genuine here.
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19th Century
Anglican
I thank God.—“I am thankful to God that it was not so.” For if he had baptized a great many, some might have said he had …
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Baptist
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this…
The mention of baptism leads Paul to comment that the Corinthian believers had no reason to depend on the efficacy of baptism by him as a sanctifyi…
16th Century
Protestant
I thank my God. In these words he very sharply reproves the perversity of the Corinthians, which made it necessary for him to avoid, in a …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I thank God that I baptized none of you The Alexandrian copy and the Syriac version read, "I thank my God"; not that…
In the great things of religion, be of one mind; and where there is not unity of belief, still let there be union of affection. Agreement in the gr…
13th Century
Catholic
After the greeting, the Apostle begins to instruct them. First, he instructs them about matters concerning all of them generally, namely, the sacra…
