1. When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
2. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3. I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,
4. and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power,
5. so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.