Bible: 1 Cor. 1:17, 21; 2:3-5

1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless. 1 

1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.
2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy 1  because on it he ceased all the work that he 2  had been doing in creation. 3 

The Creation of Man and Woman

2:4 This is the account 4  of the heavens and the earth 5  when they were created – when the Lord God 6  made the earth and heavens. 7 

2:5 Now 8  no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field 9  had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 10 

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