1 Corinthians 1:17-18

Divisions in the Church

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

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is _b folly to _c those who are perishing, but to us _d who are being saved it is _e the power of God.

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 2:1
   And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not co...
   1 Corinthians 2:4
   And my speech and my message were not in plausi...
   1 Corinthians 2:13
   And we impart this in words not taught by human...
   2 Corinthians 10:10
   For they say, "His letters are weighty and stro...
   2 Corinthians 11:6
   Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so...
   2 Peter 1:16
   For we did not follow cleverly devised myths wh...
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 1:21
   For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
   1 Corinthians 1:23
   But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
   1 Corinthians 1:25
   For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
   1 Corinthians 2:14
   The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 2:15
   For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
   2 Corinthians 4:3
   And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.
   2 Thessalonians 2:10
   And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:2
   And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
   Acts 2:47
   Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 1:16
   For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
   1 Corinthians 1:24
   But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.