1. Brothers, when I came to you, I did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.
2. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
4. My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5. so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6. Yet we speak wisdom among those who are mature, although not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages for our glory.
8. None of the rulers of this age knew it. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.