1 Corinthians 1:17

World English Bible (2000)

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

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  • 1 Cor 2:1 : 1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence 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 teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
  • 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
  • John 4:2 : 2 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
  • Acts 10:48 : 48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who 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 don't wage war according to the flesh; 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

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  • 1 Cor 1:18-25
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    18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

    19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

    20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

    22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

    23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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

    25 Because 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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    12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

    13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

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

    15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

    16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)

  • 1 Cor 2:1-2
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    1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

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

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

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

    11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

    12 For 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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    4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

    5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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

    19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

    20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

  • Gal 1:16
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    16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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

    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

    18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-16
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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

  • Rom 1:16
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    16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

    7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 15:1
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    1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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

  • Mark 1:8
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    8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

  • 2 Cor 11:17
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    17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • John 1:31
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    31 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."