And a certain Jew, named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Then there arose some who be longed to the synagogue called the synagogue of the Freedmen, and some of the Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and of those who were from Cilicia and Asia, and they disputed with Stephen. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.

For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

But if I am unpolished in my style of speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But we have been fully manifested among you in all things.

for I will give you a mouth, and wisdom, which all your opposers shall not be able to gainsay or withstand.

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.