1 Corinthians 2:2-5

New International Version

² For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.^{(A) 3} I came to you^(B) in weakness^(C) with great fear and trembling.^{(D) 4} My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,^(E) but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,^{(F) 5} so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.^(G)