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.
8. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.