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1 Corinthians 2:2-7 New International Version (NIV)

2. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.

4. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

5. so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

6. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.