11. For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by Chloe’s people, that there are rivalries among you.
12. I mean that each of you is saying, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”
13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14. I give thanks [to God] that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15. so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.
16. (I baptized the household of Stephanas also; beyond that I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)
17. For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with the wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning.
18. The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19. For it is written:“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and the learning of the learned I will set aside.”