14. Thank God that I didn’t baptize any of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
15. so that nobody can say that you were baptized in my name!
16. Oh, I baptized the house of Stephanas too. Otherwise, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else.
17. Christ didn’t send me to baptize but to preach the good news. And Christ didn’t send me to preach the good news with clever words so that Christ’s cross won’t be emptied of its meaning.
18. The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are being destroyed. But it is the power of God for those of us who are being saved.
19. It is written in scripture: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the intelligence of the intelligent.
20. Where are the wise? Where are the legal experts? Where are today’s debaters? Hasn’t God made the wisdom of the world foolish?