1 Corinthians 1:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

John 4:1

And so, when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John,

John 4:2

(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but only his disciples)

Acts 10:48

And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain with them for some days.

1 Corinthians 2:1

And so, brothers, when I came to you, announcing to you the testimony of Christ, I did not bring exalted words or lofty wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:13

And we are also speaking of these things, not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, bringing spiritual things together with spiritual things.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, which is found in simplicity of heart and in sincerity toward God. And it is not with worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that we have conversed with this world, and more abundantly toward you.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For they say: "His epistles, indeed, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible."

2 Corinthians 11:6

For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.

2 Corinthians 4:2

For we renounce dishonorable and hidden acts, not walking by craftiness, nor by adulterating the Word of God. Instead, by the manifestation of truth, we commend ourselves to the conscience of each man before God.

2 Peter 1:16

For it was not by following fanciful doctrines that we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were made eyewitnesses of his greatness.