1Cor 1:17, 2:4 | ESV | STEP | For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel , and not with words of eloquent wisdom , lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power .

a ch. 2:1, 4, 13; [2 Cor. 10:10; 11:6; 2 Pet. 1:16]

b ch. 4:20; Rom. 15:13, 19; 1 Thess. 1:5; 2 Pet. 1:16

1 Corinthians 1:17

17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and ^anot with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

1 Corinthians 2:4

4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of ^bthe Spirit and of power,