1st Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 14 Holy Bible
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
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For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.
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For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
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For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
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For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
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for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - My understanding is unfruitful. I am only aware that I am praying. I have no definite consciousness as to what I say.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) For if I pray in an unknown tongue.--Better, if I pray in a tongue. 1Corinthians 14:14-19 are expressed in the first person (except 1Corinthians 14:16-17, which are a parenthesis), as enforcing the Apostle's own example. A man praying in a tongue needed the gift of interpretation. The emotions of his spirit, kindled by the Spirit of God, found utterance in a "tongue," the gift of the Spirit of God; but his intellectual faculty grasped no definite idea, and could not, therefore, formulate it into human language; therefore the prayer which is offered merely in a tongue, from the spirit and not from the understanding, is useless as regards others. The Apostle is here speaking of public worship (see 1Corinthians 14:16), and not of private devotion; and the word "fruitless" implies the result, or rather the absence of result, as regards others.
