1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with eloquent words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ should be emptied of its power.
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John 4:2(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)
Acts 26:17I will deliver you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
1 Corinthians 2:4And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
2 Corinthians 4:2But we have renounced the hidden, shameful things, and do not walk in craftiness, nor handle the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 10:10For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Peter 1:16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses 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 →