1 Corinthians 1:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 4:2

(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

1 Corinthians 2:1

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.

1 Corinthians 2:13

Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

2 Corinthians 11:6

But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in everything we have made it manifest among all men to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 4:2

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 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.