1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16Yes, I did baptize the house of Stephanas also, but I do not think I baptized any one else.
Cross References
John 4:2(though Jesus himself was not accustomed to baptize, but his disciples),
Acts 26:17"‘I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes
1 Corinthians 2:4My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
2 Corinthians 4:2I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man’s conscience as in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 10:10"His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."
2 Peter 1:16For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been 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 →