2. For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross.
3. So when I came to you, I was weak and trembled all over with fear,
4. and my teaching and message were not delivered with skilful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God's Spirit.
5. Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.
6. Yet I do proclaim a message of wisdom to those who are spiritually mature. But it is not the wisdom that belongs to this world or to the powers that rule this world — powers that are losing their power.
7. The wisdom I proclaim is God's hidden wisdom, which he had already chosen for our glory even before the world was made.
8. None of the rulers of this world knew this wisdom. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9. However, as the scripture says:“What no one ever saw or heard,what no one ever thought could happen,is the very thing God prepared for those who love him.”
10. But it was to us that God made known his secret by means of his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, even the hidden depths of God's purposes.