1. When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.
2. For I decided not to know about anything among you except Yeshua the Messiah—and Him crucified.
3. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
4. My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power—
5. so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6. We do speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature—but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery—a wisdom that has been hidden, which God destined for our glory before the ages.