2And I, when I^* came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony^a of God. ²For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling, ⁴and my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness^b of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power, ⁵in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

The Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

⁶Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing, ⁷but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory, ⁸which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹But just as it is written,

“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,

and have not entered into the heart of man,

all that^c God has prepared for those who love him.”^d

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Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
aSome manuscripts have “mystery”
bSome manuscripts have “with persuasive words”
cSome manuscripts have “which”
dA quotation from Isa 64:4