For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”

And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

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Not to

(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),
And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.
rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

Not

And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

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so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

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(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),
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