1. Dear brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I told you the secret truth of God. But I did not use fancy words or great wisdom.
2. I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.
3. When I came to you, I was weak and shook with fear.
4. My teaching and my speaking were not with wise words that persuade people. But the proof of my teaching was the power that the Spirit gives.
5. I did this so that your faith would be in God’s power, not in human wisdom.
6. We teach wisdom to people who are mature, but the wisdom we teach is not from this world. It is not the wisdom of the rulers of this world, who are losing their power.
7. But we speak God’s secret wisdom that has been hidden from everyone until now. God planned this wisdom for our glory. He planned it before the world began.