(though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),

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

'I will deliver you from the [Jewish] people, as well as [from] the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

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

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

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

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of 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 in God for pulling down strongholds,

"For [his] letters," they say, "[are] weighty and powerful, but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible."

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

that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.