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.
8. None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.