1 Corinthians 1:4-6; 1 Corinthians 4:7
I thank my God - Paul here shows that he did not undervalue or despise the power of speaking foreign languages. It was with him a subject of than...
(8) I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: (8) He sets himself as an example, both that they may be ashamed of their foolish ambitio...
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...
thank . Same as "give thanks", 1 Corinthians 14:17 . I speak . speaking (as. do).
18. I thank, etc. As there are many that detract from another’s excellencies, in which they cannot themselves have distinction, Paul, that h...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: I speak with tongues more than ye all - He understood more languages than any of them did: and...
I speak with tongues more, &c.— The occasion shews, that the Apostle considered this acquirement as a spiritual gift; and his using the present...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Tongues. So B. But 'Aleph (') G f g, Vulgate, have the singular, 'in a (tongue) foreig...
(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...
I thank my God. — Here the Apostle resumes in the first person, coming back, after the parenthesis, to the continuation of his own desire and examp...
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...
(16) Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he un...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all. This the apostle says, to observe to them that he did not despise speaking with tongues: no...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Ver. 18. I thank my God, &c. ] Skill in tongues is, as now, a great blessing. Indeed a...
I thank my God , &c. As if he had said, I do not speak thus of foreign languages because I myself am deficient in them, for I must say, to the g...
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. 15 What is i...
Our Saviour, in the parable of the good shepherd, gives us this as his character, that the sheep hear his voice, and follow him, 1 Thessalonians 10...
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...
'I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all. Howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruc...
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;...
Only through the understanding of the hearer does the utterance of the Spirit result in edification:
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all;
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...
18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: