1. When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2. For I determined not to know anything amongst you, except Yeshua the Messiah, and him crucified.
3. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4. My speech and my proclaiming were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5. that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6. We speak wisdom, however, amongst those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
7. But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
8. which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.