1 When I came to you, my brothers and sisters, to preach God's secret truth, I did not use big words and great learning.
2 For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross.
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.