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The utter urgency of water baptism, shown several times in the book of Acts, is certainly not common today:

URGENT?

Paul may have a differing adjective in mind:

1 Corinthians 1:14-16 King James Version

14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

If you are NOT saved without it, I think that Christ would have told Paul to do it.

**If you are NOT saved without it, I think that Christ would have told Paul to do it**

Paul wasn’t sent in a John the baptist fashion, who came before the death, burial, and resurrection message existed. (That or Paul diobeyed God by baptizing at least 4 in Corinth, and others elsewhere.)

Paul had his ordained ministers, Silas and Timotheus, to assist him at Corinth (Acts 18:5).

Some saints at Corinth would seem to have gotten carnal with bragging about who baptized them, which is unfortunate, making the rebuke necessary.