1 Corinthians 2:1-9

1Brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I didn’t speak about God’s mystery  as if it were some kind of brilliant message or wisdom.

2While I was with you, I decided to deal with only one subject—Jesus Christ, who was crucified.

3When I came to you, I was weak. I was afraid and very nervous.

4I didn’t speak my message with persuasive intellectual arguments. I spoke my message with a show of spiritual power

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

6However, we do use wisdom to speak to those who are mature. It is a wisdom that doesn’t belong to this world or to the rulers of this world who are in power today and gone tomorrow.

7We speak about the mystery of God’s wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God had planned for our glory before the world began.

8Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

9But as Scripture says: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”