1 Corinthians 2:1-8 ▼

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

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

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

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

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

6 We 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.

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

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