1 Corinthians 1:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:1

Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:13

And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

2 Peter 1:16

For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,

2 Corinthians 10:10

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

2 Corinthians 4:2

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

John 4:2

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

2 Corinthians 11:6

I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.

Acts 10:48

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

John 4:1

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

2 Corinthians 1:12

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.