1 Corinthians 14:15
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, (o. pneuma) and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, (o. pneuma) and I will sing with the understanding also.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit (o. pneuma) prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Cross References
Psalms 47:7For God is the King of all the earth: sing all of you praises with understanding.
Romans 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit (o. pneuma) in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Romans 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
1 Corinthians 10:19What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be all of you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Philippians 1:18What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do 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 →