1 Corinthians 1:17

A Conservative Version

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:1

And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not in eminence of speech or of wisdom proclaiming the testimony of God to you.

1 Corinthians 2:13

Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

2 Peter 1:16

For we revealed to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, not men who followed in cunningly devised myths, but men who became eyewitnesses of the majesty of that man.

2 Corinthians 10:10

Because, The letters, he says, are indeed weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is disdained.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

John 4:2

(although Jesus himself did not immerse, but his disciples),

2 Corinthians 11:6

But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything made known in all things to you.

Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be immersed in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to remain some days.

John 4:1

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.