3 When I came to you, I was weak. I was afraid and very nervous.
4 I didn’t speak my message with persuasive intellectual arguments. I spoke my message with a show of spiritual power
5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.
6 However, we do use wisdom to speak to those who are mature. It is a wisdom that doesn’t belong to this world or to the rulers of this world who are in power today and gone tomorrow.
7 We speak about the mystery of God’s wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God had planned for our glory before the world began.
8 Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as Scripture says:“No eye has seen,no ear has heard,and no mind has imaginedthe things that God has preparedfor those who love him.”