1. And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.
2. For I determined not 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 speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, which are coming to nought:
7. but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:
8. which none of the rulers of this world knoweth: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
9. but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.