Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ May God show you his kindness and peace which come from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I am always thanking God for the blessings he has given you through Jesus Christ.

⁵ He has made you rich in all ways, in all that you say and in all you know.

⁶ Christ has done for you just what he promised to do.

⁷ You have every blessing you need while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to come again.

⁸ And right to the end Jesus Christ will surely keep you safe. Then no one will find anything wrong about you on the day our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

⁹ God never fails anyone. It is he who called you to belong to his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁰ My Christian brothers, I beg you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, agree in what you say. Do not divide into groups. You should all think in the same way and decide to do the same things.

¹¹ My brothers, I say this because I have been told by some of Chloe's family that you are quarrelling.

¹² This is what I mean. Some of you say, `I belong to Paul.' Others say, `I belong to Apollos.' And others say, `I belong to Cephas'. And yet others say, `I belong to Christ.'

¹³ Is Christ divided? Was Paul nailed to the cross for you? No! Were you baptized in Paul's name? No!

¹⁴ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you but Crispus and Gaius.

¹⁵ So no one can say you were baptized in my name.

¹⁶ (However, I also baptized the people of the house of Stephanas. I do not know of any one else that I baptized.)

¹⁷ Christ did not send me to baptize people, but he sent me to tell the good news. I must not tell it with the clever words of this world. That would not show what the death of Christ on a cross truly means.