Verse 17

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:1 : 1 And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,
  • 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 `because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty --
  • 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power -- 5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
  • John 4:2 : 2 (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)
  • Acts 10:48 : 48 he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
  • 2 Cor 10:3-4 : 3 for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war, 4 for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,