1 Corinthians 14:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. ”

• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  So likewise ye ... - To apply the case. If you use a foreign language, how shall it be known what is said, or of what use will it be, unless it is made intelligible by interpretation? Utter by...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words (f) easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. (f) That fitly utter the matter itself.

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  So likewise ye . So ye also. utter . give. words . App-121. easy to be understood . intelligible. Greek. eusemos. Only here. into . App-104.

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. Likewise ye - If ye do not speak in the Church so as...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. So likewise ye - who have life, as opposed to...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  So likewise ye. — This is not the application of the foregoing, but the introduction of a third illustration, viz., the varieties of human language. The “tongue” here is simply the actual organ of...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Gift of “Prophesying” 1 Corinthians 14:1-12 The word prophesy is used here, as so largely in Scripture, not in the limited sense of foretelling the future, but of pouring forth heaven-giv...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So likewise you, unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood ,.... This is an accommodation of the foregoing similes to the case in hand: for as unless there is a distinction of notes...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. Ver. 9. Ye shall speak into the air ] You shall l...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And even Greek, ομως, in like manner , (the word, it seems, being here used for ομοιως, as it sometimes is by the poets, see Beza and Macknight,) things without life Inanimate things; whether p...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; By logon eushmon is meant words which signify well to those that hear them; for words may be significant enough in themselves, yet nothing at all significant to them that hear them, being un...

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - 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 14:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Public utterance is valueless without clear understanding:

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 14:19 ; 1 Corinthians 9:26

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• 1 Corinthians 14:9 - 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 14:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Unless ye utter by the tongue — Which is miraculously given you. Words easy to be understood — By your hearers. Ye will speak to the air — A proverbial expression. Will utterly lose your labour.

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