1 Corinthians 1:17

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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

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  • 1 Cor 2:1 : 1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.
  • 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 because some say,“His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return of our Lord Jesus Christ; no, we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur.
  • 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.
  • John 4:2 : 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
  • Acts 10:48 : 48 So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
  • 2 Cor 10:3-4 : 3 For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments

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    18 The Message of the Cross For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

    19 For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

    20 Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

    21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

    22 For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

    23 but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

    24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

    25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

  • 1 Cor 1:12-16
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    12 Now I mean this, that each of you is saying,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” or“I am with Cephas,” or“I am with Christ.”

    13 Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?

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

    15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!

    16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)

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    1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.

    2 For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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    14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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    10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

    11 Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

    12 For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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    4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

    5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

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    18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

    20 And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

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    16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

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    15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

    16 The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

    17 The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

    18 What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

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    18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

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    15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

    16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

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    16 The Power of the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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    16 so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.

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    7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

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    23 Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11 Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

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    21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

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    11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6 Occasion of the Letter I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel–

    7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 15:1
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    1 Christ’s Resurrection Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

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    30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

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    8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

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    5 in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction(surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

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    17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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    4 For whenever someone says,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

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    31 I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

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