1 Corinthians 1:13

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?

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KJV

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

ASV

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

YLT

Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

DBT

Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?

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"Is Christ divided?" Why have you divided Christ? Why have you torn apart His body? A speech filled with anger. Some, however, understood the words "is Christ divided?" in this way: has Christ divided the Church from the people and taken one part for Himself, …

Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on 1 Corinthians, 1107patristic

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Is Christ divided?....

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

Is Christ divided? - Paul, in this verse, proceeds to show the impropriety of their divisions and strifes. His general argument is, that Christ alone ought to be regarded as their head and leader, and that his claims, arising from his crucifixion, and acknowledged by their baptism, were so pre-eminent that they could not be divided, and the honors due to him should not be rendered to any other. The apostle, therefore, asks, with strong emphasis, whether Christ was to be regarded as divided?

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

This, which is true of Paul the founder of the Church of Corinth, holds equally good of Cephas and Apollos, who had not such a claim as Paul in the Corinthian Church. crucified . . . baptized--The cross claims us for Christ, as redeemed by Him; baptism, as dedicated to Him. in the name--rather, "into the name" (Ga 3:27), implying the incorporation involved in the idea of baptism.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Is Christ divided - Are not all the members still under one head? Was not he alone crucified for you all; and were ye not all baptized in his name? The glory of Christ then is not to be divided between him and his servants; neither is the unity of the body to be torn asunder, seeing Christ is one still.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755evangelical

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Cross-references

18 linked verses

The verses this one reaches12

Matthew 28:19
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
Acts 2:38
Peter 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.
Ephesians 4:5
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
2 Corinthians 11:4
For 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.
John 4:2
(although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),
Acts 18:8
Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.
Acts 10:48
So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
Acts 19:5
On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 10:2
They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
Acts 16:15
And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
2 Corinthians 5:14–15
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
Galatians 1:7
which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.

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About this book

The Crucifixion — 'Christ crucified' (1 Cor 2:2) — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)

1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Canon: New Testament
Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 2:38
Peter 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.
leads to
- Acts 8:12
  But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 22:16
  And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
- Mark 16:16
  Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
- Luke 24:47
  and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Acts 10:48
  So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
Through
Acts 10:48
So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
leads to
- Acts 2:38
  Peter 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ephesians 4:5
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 8:6
  yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and…
Through
Acts 19:5
On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
leads to
- Acts 8:16
  For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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