1 Corinthians 1:17

The Scriptures 1998

For Messiah did not send me to immerse, but to bring the Good News, not with wisdom of words, that the stake of Messiah should not be nullified.

Cross References

John 4:1

So when the Master knew that the Pharisees had heard that יהושע  made and immersed more taught ones than Yoḥ

John 4:2

although יהושע  Himself did not immerse, but His taught ones –

Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be immersed in the Name of יהושע  Messiah. Then they asked him to remain a few days.

1 Corinthians 2:1

And, when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the witness of Elohim.

1 Corinthians 2:13

which we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Set-apart Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual matters with spiritual matters.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.

2 Corinthians 10:10

Because they say, “His letters are truly weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech amounts to naught.”

2 Corinthians 11:6

But even if I am unskilled in word, yet not in knowledge. Indeed, in every way we have been manifested among you in all matters.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim.

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we made known to you the power and coming of our Master יהושע  Messiah, but were eye-witnesses of His superbness.