“And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:1–5, ESV)
"He now reminds the Corinthians that his deportment among them matched the message he preached and was centered entirely on Christ and not himself. . . Paul has in view language that is conducive to self-display. He is saying that he did not put on airs or speak in high-flown language to foist himself off on them as one above the common herd. . . Preaching the gospel in ways that exhibit human wisdom would be an expression of self-assertion and would thus go directly against the content of the gospel. The gospel always points beyond humans to God and Christ. . . Everything was to focus on the one preached rather than on the preacher." [1]
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1. Garland, D. E. (2003). 1 Corinthians (pp. 82–83). Baker Academic.
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