27 No, God has chosen the worlds folly to confound its philosophy; and the worlds weakness to confound its strength.
28 The worlds base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;
29 so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.
17 For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.
32 "AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF."
4 My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;