1st Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 14 Holy Bible
I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;
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I give praise to God that not one of you had baptism from me, but Crispus and Gaius;
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I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius,
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I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
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I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
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I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - I thank God that I baptized none of you. St. Paul, in his characteristic manner, "goes off at the word" baptize. He thanked God, not by way of any disparagement to baptism, but because he had thus given no excuse to the undue exaltation of his own name. Compare the practice of our Lord himself, in leaving his disciples to baptize (John 4:2). The apostles would not have approved the system of wholesale baptisms of the heathen which has prevailed in some Romanist missions. Save Crispus. The ruler of the synagogue (Acts 18:8). Doubtless there were some strong special reasons why, in these instances, St. Paul departed from his general rule of not personally baptizing his converts. And Gaius. Gaius of Corinth (Romans 16:23). It was one of the commonest of names. There was another Gaius of Derbe (Acts 20:4), and another known to St. John (3 John 1:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) I thank God.--"I am thankful to God that it was not so." For if he had baptised a great many, some might have said he had created originally a party in his own name. Crispus (see Acts 18:8), a "ruler of the synagogue," Gaius (or Caius, his Roman name), "mine host, and of the whole Church" (Romans 16:23): the evident importance and position of these two, and that they were the first converts, may account for the Apostle having departed from his usual practice in baptising them.