1 Corinthians 14:15
What is then to be done? I will pray with the Spirit, but I will pray to be understood: I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing to be understood.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit indeed prayeth, but my meaning is fruitless.
Cross References
Romans 1:9for God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
Romans 8:31What shall we say then 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 what is sacrificed to an idol is in itself any thing to stumble at?
Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be not thoughtless, but consider what is the will of the Lord.
Philippians 1:18What then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I 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 →