^{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,

^{5 Ref} that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

^{6 Ref} We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

^{7 Ref} But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,