1 Corinthians 1:17
For Messiah did not send me to baptize, but to preach; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Messiah should be inefficient.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
16I moreover baptized the household of Stephanas: but further, I know not that I baptized any other.
Cross References
John 4:2Yet Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples.
Acts 26:17And I will deliver thee from the people of the Jews, and from other nations; to whom I send thee,
1 Corinthians 2:4And my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness of the discourses of wisdom; but with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power:
2 Corinthians 4:2But we have renounced the concealments of dishonor, and we walk not in craftiness, nor do we treat the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, we exhibit ourselves to all the consciences of men before God.
2 Corinthians 10:10For there are some who say, His epistles are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Peter 1:16For we have not gone after fables artfully framed, in making known to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; but it was after we had been 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 →