1 Corinthians 1:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:1

And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

1 Corinthians 2:13

Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.

2 Peter 1:16

For not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty.

2 Corinthians 10:10

(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)

2 Corinthians 4:2

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

John 4:2

(Though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples,)

2 Corinthians 11:6

And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.

Acts 10:48

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

John 4:1

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.