10 Through this name of Jesus Christ our Lord, I urge you — for that is the secret of his name — to have one mind, one persuasion and precept amongst you, to be all of one mind with one idea. O let schisms and divisions be unknown to you, for your perfection is in unity.
11 Strifes there are amongst you, it has come to my knowledge through the members who meet in Chloe's house.
12 They tell me some describe themselves as disciples of Paul, others of Apollos, others of Cephas, others of Christ —
13 but Christ is not divided. I was not crucified for you, nor were you baptised into my name.
14-15 For this very reason I was careful not to baptise disciples personally amongst you. It is to me a cause of gratitude to God that I baptised only Crispus and Gaius,
16 and also the household of Stephanas — not another soul, I think, did I baptise, and purposely, that it might not seem that I was making disciples.
17 Christ Jesus sent me not to baptise, but to make known the word of joy, not intellectually, not with the persuasive brilliance of personality and personal influence, lest the cross of the Christ should be obliterated and ruled out.