4. I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you in Christ Jesus,
5. that in every thing ye are enriched in him in all word and in all knowledge,
6. with which the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,
7. so that ye lack nothing in any gift, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8. who shall also confirm that ye shall remain unimpeachable unto the end, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfect, joined together in the same understanding and in the same perception.
11. For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12. In other words, that each one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
13. Is the Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?
14. I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius,
15. lest any should say that ye were baptized into my name.
16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} of Christ should be made void.
18. For the word of the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.