1 Corinthians 2:1-8 ▼

1 Brothers 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.

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

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

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

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

6 However, 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.

7 We 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.

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