When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.

For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart."

that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.