◄ 1 Corinthians 1:17 ►
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Good News Translation
Christ did not send me to baptize. He sent me to tell the Good News, and to tell it without using the language of human wisdom, in order to make sure that Christ's death on the cross is not robbed of its power.

New Revised Standard Version
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power.

Contemporary English Version
Christ did not send me to baptize. He sent me to tell the good news without using words that sound wise and would make the cross of Christ lose its power.

New American Bible
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with the wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

not to.

John 4:2 (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),

Acts 10:48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days.

Acts 26:17,18 Delivering thee from the people and from the nations unto which now I send thee: . . .

not.

1 Corinthians 2:1,4,13 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 10:3,4,10 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. . . .

2 Peter 1:16 For we have not by following artificial fables made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ: but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness.

words.

1 Corinthians 2:5 That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

Context
Unity in the Church
…16And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. 18For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.…
Cross References
John 4:1
When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John

John 4:2
(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),

Acts 10:48
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days.

1 Corinthians 2:1
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power:

1 Corinthians 2:13
Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 10:10
(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

2 Corinthians 11:6
For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all things we have been made manifest to you.

1 Corinthians 1:16
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