14. I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15. for now no one can say they were baptized in my name.
16. (Oh yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I don’t remember baptizing anyone else.)
17. For Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News—and not with clever speech, for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power.
18. The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.
19. As the Scriptures say,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wiseand discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”