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1 Corinthians 1:8-16 Good News Bible (GNB)

8. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be faultless on the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9. God is to be trusted, the God who called you to have fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

10. By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ I appeal to all of you, my brothers and sisters, to agree in what you say, so that there will be no divisions among you. Be completely united, with only one thought and one purpose.

11. For some people from Chloe's family have told me quite plainly, my friends, that there are quarrels among you.

12. Let me put it this way: each one of you says something different. One says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Peter”; and another, “I follow Christ”.

13. Christ has been divided into groups! Was it Paul who died on the cross for you? Were you baptized as Paul's disciples?

14. I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius.

15. No one can say, then, that you were baptized as my disciples.

16. (Oh yes, I also baptized Stephanas and his family; but I can't remember whether I baptized anyone else.)