1 Corinthians 1:14

I thank God ¹  that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I am thankful that I did not baptise any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I was not involved with any of your baptisms--except for Crispus and Gaius--and on getting this report, I'm sure glad I wasn't.

I give praise to God that not one of you had baptism from me, but Crispus and Gaius;

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

I thank God ¹  that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

¹ tc The oldest and most important witnesses to this text, as well as a few others (א* B 6 1739 sa^ms bo^pt), lack the words τῷ θεῷ (tw qew, “God”), while the rest have them. An accidental omission could well account for the shorter reading, especially since θεῷ would have been written as a nomen sacrum (eucaristwtwqMw). However, one might expect to see, in some mss at least, a dropping of the article but not the divine name. Internally, the Pauline introductory thanksgivings elsewhere always include τῷ θεῷ after εὐχαριστῶ (eucaristw, “I thank”; cf. Rom 1:8; 1 Cor 1:4; Phil 1:3; Phlm 4; in the plural, note Col 1:3; 1 Thess 1:2). However, both the fact that this is already used in 1 Cor 1:4 (thus perhaps motivating scribes to add it ten verses later), and that in later portions of his letters Paul does not consistently use the collocation of εὐχαριστῶ with τῷ θεῷ (Rom 16:4; 1 Cor 10:30), might give one pause. Still, nowhere else in the corpus Paulinum do we see a sentence begin with εὐχαριστῶ without an accompanying τῷ θεῷ. A decision is difficult, but on balance it is probably best to retain the words.