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,