1st Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 13 Holy Bible
Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?
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Is there a division in Christ? was Paul nailed to the cross for you? or were you given baptism in the name of Paul?
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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? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
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Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Is Christ divided? Has Christ been parcelled into fragments? "Is there a Pauline, a Petrine, an Apollonian, a Christian Christ?" Whether you call yourselves Liberals, or Intellectualists, or Catholics, or Bible Christians, your party spirit is a sin, and all the worse a sin because it pranks itself out in the guise of pure religious zeal. This is more forcible than to take the clause affirmatively:" Christ has been parcelled into fragments." In either ease we see" the tragic result of party spirit." Was Paul crucified for you? Again he rebukes the partisanship which attached itself to his own name. This showed a splendid courage and honesty. The introduction of the question by the negative μὴ expresses astonished indignation: "Can you possibly make a watchword of the name of a mere man, as though he had been crucified for you?" This outburst of feeling is very important, as proving the immeasurable distance which, in Paul's own view, separated him from his Lord. It is also instructive to see how St. Paul at once denounces the spirit of party without deigning to enter into the question as to which party of these wrangling "theologians" was most or least in the right. He did not choose to pander to their sectarian spirit by deciding between their various forms of aggressive orthodoxy. Into the name (comp. Matthew 28:19).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Is Christ divided?--Better, Christ is divided. Christ, in the communion of the Church, is rent, torn in fragments by you. The mention of the sacred name as a party-cry makes the Apostle burst into that impassioned exclamation. Then there is a momentary pause, and the Apostle goes back from his sudden denunciation of the "Christ" party, to those whom he had originally selected for typical treatment, viz., those who bore his own name, the two streams of thought, as it were, mingling and rushing together; and he asks (with a mind still full of the burning indignation aroused by the mention of the name of union as a symbol of disunion), "Was Paul crucified for you?" "Was your baptism in the name of Paul?" To each of which the answer must of necessity be "No."Paul being the founder of the Church, these questions apply more forcibly to the others also.
