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so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.

However, we do use wisdom to speak to those who are mature. It is a wisdom that doesn’t belong to this world or to the rulers of this world who are in power today and gone tomorrow. We speak about the mystery of God’s wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God had planned for our glory before the world began.

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so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.(A)

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,(B) but not the wisdom of this age(C) or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.(D) No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery(E) that has been hidden(F) and that God destined for our glory before time began.

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