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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. |
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. |
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void. |
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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. |
For Christ (the Messiah) sent me out not to baptize but [to evangelize by] preaching the glad tidings (the Gospel), and that not with verbal eloquence, lest the cross of Christ should be deprived of force and emptied of its power and rendered vain (fruitless, void of value, and of no effect). |
for Christ did not send me on a mission to be a baptizer but to be a bringer of good news, not bring this good news within the realm of philosophical discourse, lest the Cross of the Christ be emptied of its true significance and power. |
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For Christ did not send me primarily to baptise, but to proclaim the gospel. And I have not done this by the persuasiveness of clever words, for I have no desire to rob the cross of its power. |
For Christ did not send me to baptize , but to preach the good news – but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power. |
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- Substitutes; The End Time Men - W.W. Fischer We are obviously mired and burdened today by religious practices promoting the wisdom of words and the manufactured ineffectiveness of the cross which Paul rejected in his letter to the Corinthians.