1 Corinthians 1:17
Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!
1 Corinthians 2:1
Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.
1 Corinthians 2:13
And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.
John 4:2
(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),
2 Corinthians 10:10
My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'
Acts 10:48
And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain for some days.
2 Peter 1:16
For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,
Acts 26:17-18
I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you,
1 Corinthians 2:4-5
what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,
2 Corinthians 4:2
I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4
I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;
2 Corinthians 11:6
I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.