15. lest anyone should say that you were baptized in my name.
16. (Now I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Beyond that I do not know if I baptized anyone else.)
17. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not with clever speech, lest the cross of Christ be emptied.
18. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound.”
20. Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21. For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
22. For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom,
23. but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness,