1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to baptyse but to preache the gospell not with wysdome of wordes lest the crosse of Christ shuld have bene made of none effecte.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16I baptised also the housse of Stephana. Forthermore knowe I not whether I baptised eny man or no.
Cross References
John 4:2(though that Iesus him selfe baptised not: but his disciples)
Acts 26:17delyverynge the from the people and from the gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the
1 Corinthians 2:4And my wordes and my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of manes wysdome: but in shewinge of the sprete and of power
2 Corinthians 4:2but have cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie and walke not in craftines nether corrupte we the worde of God: but walke in open trueth and reporte oure selves to every mannes conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 10:10For the pistles (sayth he) are sore and stronge: but his bodyly presence is weake and his speache rude.
2 Peter 1:16For we folowed not decevable fables when we openned vnto you the power and commynge of oure lorde Iesus Christ but with oure eyes we sawe his maieste:
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 →