1 Corinthians 2:1-7

1And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of 1God.

2For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

4and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;

5that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in 2God's power.

6But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

7But we speak 3God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which 4God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: