1. When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.
2. For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3. I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4. My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit,
5. so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.
6. However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7. On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.