1. And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.
2. For I did not judge it well to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;
4. and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
5. that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.
6. But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.
7. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: