1 Corinthians 1:17

American Standard Version (1901)

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

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  • 1 Cor 2:1 : 1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
  • 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words] .
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
  • 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
  • John 4:2 : 2 (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),
  • Acts 10:48 : 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 10:3-4 : 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

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  • 1 Cor 1:18-25
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    18For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

    19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.

    20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

    21For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

    22Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:

    23but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;

    24but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

    25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  • 1 Cor 1:12-16
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    12Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

    13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

    14I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;

    15lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.

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

  • 1 Cor 2:1-2
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    1And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

    2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • Gal 1:10-12
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

    11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

    12For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 2:4-5
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    4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

    5that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

  • Rom 15:18-20
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    18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

    20yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

  • Gal 1:16
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    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

  • Phil 1:15-18
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    15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

    16the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-16
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    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

  • Rom 1:16
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    16For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

    7which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 15:1
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    1Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Mark 1:8
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    8I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

  • 2 Cor 11:17
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    17That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • John 1:31
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    31And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water.