1 Corinthians 1:14-20

14I thank God that I immersed none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

15so that no one should say that I had immersed you into my own name.

16(I also immersed the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t recall if I immersed anyone else.)

17For Messiah sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Good News—not with cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Messiah would not be made of no effect.

18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.”

20Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?