1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet I do speak wisdom. So far Paul has said that his message is "nonsense," out of step with the wisdom of this world. Yet at the same time, he makes it plain that his message (the gospel) is in the truest sense: "God's wisdom!" But, he points out, only to those qualified to understand it! Spiritually mature. Evans writes: "The curtain must be lifted with a caution measured by the spiritual intelligence of the spectators." See 1 Corinthians 2:14. Powers that rule this world. Locke understands these to be the Jewish rulers and their distorted form of Judaism (as Galatians 1:14). Probably all human rulers can be included in this. [Some think evil spirits are meant, since they are the source of idolatry, false religions, etc. (Ephesians 6:12), but 1 Corinthians 2:8 speaks of the rulers of this world who crucified Jesus.] That are losing their power. Wise in their own ways, but not in God's, they must fall and lose their power.