1. And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
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 with great fear and trembling.
4. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
5. so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
6. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.