1 Corinthians 2:1-8 ▼

1 When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.

2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

4 and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive [words of] wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power,

5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

6 Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.

7 Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,

8 and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.