1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2 For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,
4 and my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power,
5 in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,
7 but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,