1 Corinthians 1:17

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:1

AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:13

Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

2 Peter 1:16

For we have not by following artificial fables, made known to you the power, and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness.

2 Corinthians 10:10

(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

John 4:2

(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)

2 Corinthians 11:6

For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.

Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days.

John 4:1

WHEN Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and baptizeth more than John,

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.