1. When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.
2. For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.
4. My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5. so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6. Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
7. Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.
8. None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.