1. And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with puffed up speech or wisdom to declare unto you the testimony of God.
2. For I judged not to know anything among you, except 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 with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5. that your faith should not be founded in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6. For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,
7. but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,
8. which none of the princes of this age knew (for had they known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).