15Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
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Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. …
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-16)Here the apostle gives an account of his ministry among them. He thanks God he had baptized but a few among them, Crispus , who had been a ruler of a synagogue at Corinth (Acts 18:8), Gaius, and the household of Stephanas , besides whom, he says, he did not remember that he had baptized any. But how was this a proper matter for thankfulness? Was it not a part of the apostolical commission to bapti…
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