1 Corinthians 1:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

1 Corinthians 1:16 —

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Cross-References

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1 Corinthians 16:15
I beseech you, brethren,(ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
1 Corinthians 16:17
I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
Acts 16:33
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Acts 16:15
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

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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 baptize…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. household of Stephanas--“The first-fruits of Achaia,” that is, among the first converted there (1Co 16:15, 17). It is likely that such “households” included infants (Ac 16:33). The history of the Church favors this view, as infant baptism was the usage from the earliest ages.