4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
2:4And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
2:4And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;
2:4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
2:4and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
2:4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
2:4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:
2:4My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
2:4and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power —
2:4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: