15so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
16(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don`t know whether I baptized any other.)
17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn`t be made void.
18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn`t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn`t know God, it was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
