(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples),

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay for some days.

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

And my message and my preaching [were] not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

which things we also speak, not in words taught in human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty by God to the pulling down of strongholds,

"For his letters," they say, "are severe and boisterous, but his bodily presence [is] feeble, and his speech amounts to nothing."

For we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but rather became eyewitnesses of His majesty.

in order that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.