And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to.

And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.

But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.

For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.

Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.