1 Corinthians 1:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Cross References

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 testimony of God.

1 Corinthians 2:13

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

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.

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 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.

John 4:2

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

2 Corinthians 11:6

But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things.

Acts 10:48

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

John 4:1

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

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.