Thanksgiving4Igive thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,5that in every wayyou were enriched in him in allspeech and all knowledge6even asthe testimony about Christ was confirmed among you7so that you are not lacking in any gift, as youwait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,8who will sustain you to the end,guiltlessin the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.9God is faithful, by whom you were called into thefellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.Divisions in the Church10I appeal to you, brothers,[a]by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be nodivisions among you, but that you be unitedin the same mind and the same judgment.11For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there isquarreling among you, my brothers.12What I mean is thateach one of you says, I follow Paul, or I followApollos, or I followCephas, or I follow Christ.13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were youbaptized in the name of Paul?14I thank God that I baptized none of you exceptCrispus andGaius,15so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.16(I did baptize alsothe household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)17For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, andnot with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.