1 Corinthians 1:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ For Messiah did not send me to immerse, but to bring the Good News, not with wisdom of words, that the stake of Messiah should not be nullified.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For Christ (the Messiah) sent me out not to baptize but [to evangelize by] preaching the glad tidings (the Gospel), and that not with verbal eloquence, lest the cross of Christ should be deprived of force and emptied of its power and rendered vain (fruitless, void of value, and of no effect).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Christ didn’t send me to baptize but to preach the good news. And Christ didn’t send me to preach the good news with clever words so that Christ’s cross won’t be emptied of its meaning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize: not through the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ become empty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ 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.

1 Corinthians 1:17 Cross References

John 4:1

So when the Master knew that the Pharisees had heard that יהושע made and immersed more taught ones than Yoḥanan –

John 4:2

although יהושע Himself did not immerse, but His taught ones –

Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be immersed in the Name of יהושע Messiah. Then they asked him to remain a few days.

1 Corinthians 2:1

And, when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the witness of Elohim.

1 Corinthians 2:13

which we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Set-apart Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual matters with spiritual matters.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.

2 Corinthians 10:10

Because they say, “His letters are truly weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech amounts to naught.”

2 Corinthians 11:6

But even if I am unskilled in word, yet not in knowledge; but, in every way we have been manifested among you in all matters.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim.

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we made known to you the power and coming of our Master יהושע Messiah, but were eye-witnesses of His superbness.