 | Robert Traill - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 600 pages
...disowns, is our inquiry. The words are full : For Christ ient me not to bapuze, but to preach the gospel: not -with -wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. Again, / came not to you -with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 492 pages
...certain knowledge of which was of no use whatever to the world. hot to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness: but unto us which are saved,... | |
 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...they had been with Jesus. 1 Cor. i. 17. 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. 19. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...that our faith may not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God: and all this caution is, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect, and to exclude the glory of salvation from an arm of flesh ; for a jealous God will never give his glory... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...mean, plain, illiterate men. TEXT. 17 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. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness: but unto us, which are saved,... | |
 | John Witherspoon - Fires - 1812 - 214 pages
...tneans. Thus the Apostle Paul tells us his Master sent him, " to preach the gospel, not with wis" dom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be "made of none effect." 1 Cor. i. 17. And, "af" ter that in the wisdom of God, The world by " wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | Missions - 1821 - 632 pages
...eternity. Paul evidently had his eye on this when he said, " Christ sent me to preach the Gospel : not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." 1 Cor. i. 17. This consequence, fearful as it is, naturally results from the course which has been... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 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 no effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...underwent, all tended to render more homely, what was previously plain ; his object was to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. vinced of their indubitable truth, and essential importance, he has endeavored to give " a certain... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...A»nompN¿- 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel : 'not with wisdom of ь words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For tho preaching of the cross is to c them • Ch. 2. 1, 4, IS. 2 Pet. 1. 16. " Or, iprrc*. •>... | |
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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. 
