1 Corinthians 2:1-8

1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.

2I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

4My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

5so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.

6We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.

8None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.