And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,