And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling, and my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness[a] of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power, in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:4 Some manuscripts have “with persuasive words”

I came to you(A) in weakness(B) with great fear and trembling.(C) My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,(D) but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,(E) so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.(F)

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