1 Corinthians 14:9
So also you, if you may not give speech easily understood through the tongue—how will that which is spoken be known? For you will be speaking to air.
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8For also, if a trumpet may give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning.
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 →