1 Corinthians 1:13

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

In Paul's dealing with the parties, it should be discerned that this triple question was designed to expose and correct the sin of the three groups glorying in people, but they do not cast the slightest reflection upon those who were "of Christ," who could have given the proper response to Paul's question. The other three groups, however, would have been forced to confess that neither Paul, Apollos, or Peter had been crucified for them, and that they had not been baptized into any of those three names. As McGarvey observed, "We should note how inseparably connected in Paul's thought were the sacrifice of the cross and the baptism which makes us partakers of its benefits."[17]