1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize: not through the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ become empty.
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John 4:2(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but only his disciples)
Acts 26:17rescuing you from the people and the nations to which I am now sending you,
1 Corinthians 2:4And my words and preaching were not the persuasive words of human wisdom, but were a manifestation of the Spirit and of virtue,
2 Corinthians 4:2For we renounce dishonorable and hidden acts, not walking by craftiness, nor by adulterating the Word of God. Instead, by the manifestation of truth, we commend ourselves to the conscience of each man before God.
2 Corinthians 10:10For they say: “His epistles, indeed, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible.”
2 Peter 1:16For it was not by following fanciful doctrines that we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were made eyewitnesses of his greatness.
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 →