1 Corinthians 2:5

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

1 Corinthians 2:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 2:5

That your faith should not stand
"Or be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God". The Spirit of God directed him, and he under his influence chose, and by his assistance pursued this way of preaching, with this view, and for this reason, that faith in Christ, and in the doctrines of his Gospel, which comes by hearing, might not be attributed to the force of human eloquence and oratory; or stand upon so sandy a foundation, as that which might, if that was the case, be puffed away by a superior flow and force of words; but that it might be ascribed, as it ought to be, to almighty power, stand in it, be supported by it, and at last be finished and fulfilled with it.

1 Corinthians 2:5 In-Context

3 When I came to you, I was weak. I was afraid and very nervous.

4 I didn't speak my message with persuasive intellectual arguments. I spoke my message with a show of spiritual power

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

6 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.

7 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.