What does 1 Corinthians 14:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful."
Verse 1 Corinthians 14:14. _FOR IF I PRAY IN AN_ UNKNOWN _TONGUE_] If my prayers are composed of sentences and sayings taken out of the prophets, c., and in their own language-_my spirit prayeth_, my...
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 worship sho...
4. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH A TONGUE. CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Prophecy the better gift. (1 Corinthians 14:1 .)_ 2. Intelligibility demanded. (1 Corinthians 14:14 .) 3. Practical instructions for the pub...
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 on...
Pursue this love. Covet the spiritual things, especially the gift of forthtelling the truth to others. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one can understand. By the...
SPIRIT. App-101. UNDERSTANDING. Greek. _nous._ Translated seven times "understanding", seventeen times "mind"....
_my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful_ The _afflatus_of the Spirit suggests the words of prayer to the possessor of the gift. He is conscious that he is fervently addressing the Giver...
1 Corinthians 14:1-25. THE SUPERIORITY OF THE GIFT OF PROPHECY OVER THAT OF TONGUES...
_TONGUES MUST BE PROPERLY INTERPRETED -- 1 CORINTHIANS 14:6-19:_ What good would it do speak in a language that the church could not understand? It would do no good for Paul to speak without giving th...
ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ _praes. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ (G4331), _см._ 1 Corinthians 14:13. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, предполагающем возможность или вероятность условия: "если бы мне надо...
BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL.— "My meaning is unprofitable to others, who understand not my words." See 1 Corinthians 14:4....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 14:1-19. Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men,...
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 praye...
11 The time came when the apostle admonished and taught in order that he should present every man _ mature _ in Christ (Col_1:28). Epaphras struggled in prayers that they should stand mature and compl...
_(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 that i...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 *PROPHECY AND TONGUES 14:1-40 1. THE EFFECT OF *PROPHECY 14:1-5 V1 Follow the way of love. You should be eager to have the gifts of th...
FOR IF I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. — Better, _if I pray in a tongue._ 1 Corinthians 14:14 are expressed in the first person (except 1 Corinthians 14:16, which are a parenthesis), as enforcing the Apo...
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 tongues...
The Tongue has been marked out as an inferior charism, because it _does not edify others_; it is less desirable also because _it does not turn to account the man's own intelligence_ : “If I pray with...
UNDERSTANDING PROMOTES EDIFYING 1 Corinthians 14:13 The Apostle here gives two practical directions, in order to restore the rule of the understanding above the babble of incoherent sounds, which wa...
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,...
Desire That Which Builds Up the Church Thus, Paul urged the Corinthian brethren to desire the spiritual gifts that would be most useful. Particularly, he urged them to desire those gifts which would...
(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...
_If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is without fruit: it may signify without fruit, or profit to others, though some understand, as if by this gift of tongues, they sometim...
“Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret. 14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15. What is it then? I will pray with the...
(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;...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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. For it is...
Two Verses in this Chapter 14 demand a little attention (1 Corinthians 14:1-2 the 3rd and the 6th (1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6). Verse 3 (1 Corinthians 14:3) is the effect, or rather the qu...
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, and...
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 martyr...
_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 discou...
MY SPIRIT PRAYETH; goeth forth to God in holy and fervent desires, and is thus edified, verse 1 Corinthians 14:4. MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL; according to one view, it bears no fruit to myself, s...
FOR IF I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL....
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 bo...
FOR IF. PRAY IN. TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL. 'For' -'Paul now applies the point..to their..worship by indicating the specific effect unintelligibility has on gathe...
6-14 Even an apostle could not edify, unless he spoke so as to be understood by his hearers. To speak words that have no meaning to those who hear them, is but speaking into the air. That cannot answe...
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 op...
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful....
1 Corinthians 14:14 For G1063 if G1437 pray G4336 (G5741) tongue G1100 my G3450 spirit G4151 prays G4336 (G5736) but G1161 my G3450 understanding G3563 is G2076 (G5748) unfruitful G175 my spirit - 1...
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 gifts...
1 Corinthians 14:14. FOR IF I PRAY IN A TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL ‘my rational intelligence is unavailing to explain myself to others.'...
BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL (ο δε νους μου ακαρπος). My intellect (νους) gets no benefit (ακαρπος, without fruit) from rhapsodical praying that may even move my spirit (πνευμα)....
CONTENTS: Prophecy and speaking in tongues. The order of the ministry of this gift in the church. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: That is the best and most eligible gift which best a...
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 g...
FOR IF I PRAY IN THIS WAY. Paul shows that for worship to be helpful, and for a sane and sound church life, the _mind_ must work together with the energies of the (human) _spirit._ In a sense, these n...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 14:6 Paul uses several illustrations to show that speaking in tongues without interpretation does not strengthen the faith of anyone other than the speaker; such ed...
CHAPTER XIV SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He puts prophecy before the gift of tongues, because (_a_) it is of great use in edifying others, and tongues are not, unless some one interpret; (_b_) because...
_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 “_Pursue_”...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 _The_ _gift of preaching superior to the gift_ _tongues_. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY; literally, _chase; pursue. _The word is one of which St. Paul is fo...
So Paul exhorts, Follow after love and desire spiritual (1 Corinthians 14:1), But rather, that you may prophecy. We were told to covet earnestly the best gifts. Now, again, he is saying the same thi...
1 Corinthians 14:15; 1 Corinthians 14:16; 1 Corinthians 14:19; 1 Corinthians 14:2...
Spirit [π ν ε υ μ α]. The human spirit, which is moved by the divine Spirit. See on Romans 8:4. Understanding [ν ο υ ς]. See on Romans 7:23. Is unfruitful [α κ α ρ π ο ς ε σ τ ι ν]. Furnishes nothin...
TALKING IN TONGUES 1 Corinthians 14:1 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 assert...
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 understandi...