1 Corinthians 14:15; 1 Corinthians 14:16; 1 Corinthians 14:19; 1 Corinthians 14:2
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...
(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 suffici...
1 Corinthians 14. Prophecy and Speaking with Tongues, their Relative Value and their Place in the Church Gathering. Paul now comes to the direct co...
spirit . App-101. understanding . Greek. nous. Translated seven times "understanding", seventeen times "mind".
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 s...
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 c...
But my understanding is unfruitful.— "My meaning is unprofitable to others, who understand not my words." See 1 Corinthians 14:4 .
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. Spirit - my higher being, the passive object of th...
(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 wh...
Is unfruitful ] is of no use to myself or to any one else.
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 Corint...
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...
Understanding Promotes Edifying 1 Corinthians 14:13-25 The Apostle here gives two practical directions, in order to restore the rule of the und...
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 th...
(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 unt...
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...
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. Ver. 14. Is unfruitful ] In regard of others' edific...
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 wo...
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 influen...
On Spiritual Gifts. A. D. 57. 6 Now, breth...
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; a...
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...
'For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.' For praying in a tongue does not benefit the church at all. Indeed...
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 them...
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...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 The gift of preaching superior to the gift tongues . 1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after charity;...
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Only through the understanding of the hearer does the utterance of the Spirit result in edification:
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 i...
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 S...
14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.