1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of discourse, lest the cross of Christ should be slighted.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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John 4:2(though Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),
Acts 26:17delivering thee both from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send thee,
1 Corinthians 2:4And my conversation and my preaching was not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:
2 Corinthians 4:2but have renounced all shameful secret practices, not conducting ourselves with artifice, nor deceitfully disguising the word of God, but by clear manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience as in the presence of God.
2 Corinthians 10:10For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is feeble, and his speech contemptible.
2 Peter 1:16For we have not followed artfully devised fables, when we made known to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, but 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 →