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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.
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For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
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that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
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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.
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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
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which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.