1 Corinthians 14:15
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
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In Context
14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Cross References
Psalms 47:7For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.
Romans 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers
Romans 8:31What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us?
1 Corinthians 10:19What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Philippians 1:18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:7-15
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words… Read the whole commentary →