1. And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2. For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,
4. and my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power,
5. in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6. Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,
7. but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,
8. which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9. But just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.”