1. AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.
2. For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4. And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;
5. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;
7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory;