Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. and so forth That there is no schisms … contentions, and so forth To hinder these, was the chief design of this letter; one saying, I am of Paul, and so forth each party bragging of their master by whom they had been baptized, and made Christians. I am of Apollo, the eloquent preacher, and I of Cephas, the head of the apostles, and of the whole Church; whilst others, the only party not to be blamed, contented themselves with saying, and I am of Christ.—Is Christ divided? Is not your salvation, is not your justification in baptism, and all gifts from him? Witham.
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”