1 Corinthians 1:17-19

International Children’s Bible

¹⁷Christ did not give me the work of baptizing people. He gave me the work of preaching the Good News, and he sent me to preach the Good News without using words of worldly wisdom. If I used worldly wisdom to tell the Good News, the cross^[a] of Christ would lose its power.

Christ Is God’s Power and Wisdom

¹⁸The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those who are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹It is written in the Scriptures:

“I will cause the wise men to lose their wisdom.
I will make the wise men unable to understand.” Isaiah 29:14

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Footnotes

1:17 cross Paul uses the cross as a picture of the gospel, the story of Christ’s death and rising from death to pay for men’s sins. The cross, or Christ’s death, was God’s way to save men.