3 So when I came to you, I was weak and trembled all over with fear,
4 and my teaching and message were not delivered with skilful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God's Spirit.
5 Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.
6 Yet I do proclaim a message of wisdom to those who are spiritually mature. But it is not the wisdom that belongs to this world or to the powers that rule this world — powers that are losing their power.
7 The wisdom I proclaim is God's hidden wisdom, which he had already chosen for our glory even before the world was made.
8 None of the rulers of this world knew this wisdom. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as the scripture says:“What no one ever saw or heard,what no one ever thought could happen,is the very thing God prepared for those who love him.”