1 Corinthians 1:17
For the Messiah did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with eloquent wisdom, so the cross of the Messiah won't be emptied of its power.
1 Corinthians 2:1
When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.
1 Corinthians 2:13
We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.
John 4:2
although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples
2 Corinthians 10:10
For someone is saying, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible."
Acts 10:48
So Peter ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah. Then they asked him to stay there for several days.
2 Peter 1:16
When we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we did not follow any clever myths. Rather, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Acts 26:17-18
I'll continue to rescue you from your people and from the gentiles to whom I'm sending you.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5
My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4
Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way.
2 Corinthians 11:6
Even though I may be untrained as an orator, I am not so in the field of knowledge. We have made this clear to all of you in every possible way.