1 Corinthians 14:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. ”

• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For if I pray ... - The reference to prayer here, and to singing in 1 Corinthians 14:15 , is designed to illustrate the propriety of the general sentiment which he is defending, that public wors...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (6) For (i) if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my (k) spirit prayeth, but my understanding is (l) unfruitful. (6) A reason: because it is not sufficient for us to speak so in the congregation that we...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Corinthians 14. Prophecy and Speaking with Tongues, their Relative Value and their Place in the Church Gathering. Paul now comes to the direct comparison between the two types of ecstatic speech...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  spirit . App-101. understanding . Greek. nous. Translated seven times "understanding", seventeen times "mind".

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  14. For if I pray in another tongue. (827) While this example, too, serves to confirm what he has previously maintained, it forms, at the same time, in my opinion, an additional particular....

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. For if I pray in an unknown tongue - If my prayers are composed of sentences and sayings taken out of the...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But my understanding is unfruitful.— "My meaning is unprofitable to others, who understand not my words." See 1 Corinthians 14:4 .

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. Spirit - my higher being, the passive object of the Holy Spirit's operations, and the instrument of...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares th...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For if I pray in an unknown tongue. — Better, if I pray in a tongue. 1 Corinthians 14:14-19 are expressed in the first person (except 1 Corinthians 14:16-17 , which are a parenthesis), as enfo...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tong...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Understanding Promotes Edifying 1 Corinthians 14:13-25 The Apostle here gives two practical directions, in order to restore the rule of the understanding above the babble of incoherent sounds,...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. (2) For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him;...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For if I pray in an unknown tongue ,.... In the Hebrew tongue, which the greatest part of the Jewish doctors insisted a upon should be only used in prayer; which notion might be borrowed from them,...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. Ver. 14. Is unfruitful ] In regard of others' edification. It were a great grace, said Lambert the mar...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue Unknown to the congregation to which he would address himself; pray that he may interpret That God would give him the gift also of expounding his disco...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the b...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  On Spiritual Gifts. A. D.  57.       6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, wha...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  From this and the former verse, the papists would justify the lawfulness of their Latin service, which none or few of the common people understand; and they seem to have a little advantage from the o...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Use Of Spiritual Gifts in the Gatherings of God's People (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gi...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 14:1 . Follow after .—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31 ; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “ P...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 The gift of preaching superior to the gift tongues . 1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after charity; literally, chase; pursue. The word is one of w...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 14:15 ; 1 Corinthians 14:16 ; 1 Corinthians 14:19 ; 1 Corinthians 14:2

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Talking in Tongues 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  If I pray in an unknown tongue — The apostle, as he did at 1 Corinthians 14:6 , transfers it to himself. My spirit prayeth — By the power of the Spirit I understand the words myself. But my unders...

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