1 Corinthians 1:17
For the Meshiha sent me not to baptize, but to preach; not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of the Meshiha should be nullified.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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John 4:2(though it was not Jeshu himself baptized, but his disciples,)
Acts 26:17And I will deliver thee from the people of the Jihudoyee, and from the other nations to whom I send thee,
1 Corinthians 2:4And my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasion of the words of wisdom, but with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
2 Corinthians 4:2But we have rejected the secrets of shamefulness; and walk not with craft, nor deal deceitfully (with) the word of Aloha; but by the revelation of the truth make we ourselves manifest to the minds of all men before Aloha.
2 Corinthians 10:10For there are men who say, His epistles are weighty and forcible; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Peter 1:16For it is not after fables which are made with art that we have gone, in making known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, but as we were spectators 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 →