1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16I did, indeed, immerse the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.
Cross References
John 4:2(though not Jesus himself, but his disciples immersed,)
Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,
1 Corinthians 2:4and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
2 Corinthians 4:2but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 10:10For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.
2 Peter 1:16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 1:15-17
Party-Spirit Reproved. ( a. d. 57.) 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. Here the apostle gives an account of his ministry among them. He thanks God he had baptized but a few among them, Crispus, who had been a ruler of a synagogue at Corinth ( Acts xviii. 8 ), Gaius, and the household of Stephanas, besides whom, he says, he… Read the whole commentary →