Knox:
"Only I entreat you, brethren, as you love the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, use, all of you, the same language. There must be no
divisions among you; you must be restored to unity of mind and purpose. The
account I have of you, my brethren, from Chloe’s household, is that there are
dissensions among you; each of you, I mean, has a cry of his own, I
am for Paul, I am for Apollo, I am for Cephas, I am for Christ. What, has
Christ been divided up? Was it Paul that was crucified for you? Was it in
Paul’s name that you were baptized? Christ
did not send me to baptize; he sent me to preach the gospel; not with an
orator’s cleverness, for so the cross of Christ might be robbed of its force."
NAB Lectionary:
"I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be
no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same
purpose. For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers and sisters, by
Chloe’s people, that there are rivalries among you. 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.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for
you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 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."
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