^{1 Ref} When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

^{2 Ref} For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

^{3 Ref} I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

^{4 Ref} My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,