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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:15

How we should sing and pray. I. AN IMPORTANT MATTER , SINCE SINGING AND PRAYER CONSTITUTE THE CHIEF PARTS OF PUBLIC WORSHIP . II. THE " EXTERNALS " OF SINGING AND PRAYER ARE NOT OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE . 1. Music. 2. Eloquence. 3. Form. III. THE RIGHT METHOD . 1. With the spirit. Intellectual worship alone is very imperfect. It is cold, formal, not stimulative. Our emotional nature should take part. We... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:15

What is it then? - What shall I do? What is the proper course for me to pursue? What is my practice and my desire; see the same form of expression in Romans 3:9, and Romans 6:15. It indicates the “conclusion” to which the reasoning had conducted him, or the course which he would pursue in view of all the circumstances of the case.I will pray with the spirit ... - I will endeavor to “blend” all the advantages which can be derived from prayer; I will “unite” all the benefits which “can” result to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 14:15-17

1 Corinthians 14:15-17. What is it then? What is my duty in these circumstances? What must I do when the Spirit moves me to pray in the church in an unknown tongue? Why this: I will pray with the Spirit Under his influence, uttering the words which he suggests; and I will pray with the understanding also So that my meaning, being interpreted into the common language, may be understood by others, 1 Corinthians 14:19. I will sing with the inspiration of the Spirit And with my meaning... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:1-25

The gift of tongues (14:1-25)In the light of his teaching on the variety of spiritual gifts and the importance of love, Paul now considers the problem that had arisen in the Corinthian church concerning tongues. The gift is allowable, but prophecy is preferable. This is because those who speak in tongues speak to God, not to their fellow worshippers, and therefore are of spiritual help only to themselves (unless someone interprets for them). Prophets, however, speak to all and so build up the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 14:15

sing . Greek. psallo , as Ephesians 5:15 (making melody). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 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.What is it then? ... McGarvey understood this is idiomatic for "What is the conclusion of the argument?"[7] We might state the argument as this: "Therefore, let's have no more of this tongue business in the songs and prayers; let everything be done in a language everybody can understand." read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:15

1 Corinthians 14:15. I will pray with the understanding also.— That is, according to Mr. Locke, "When moved to it by the Spirit, I will pray in an unknown tongue; but so that my meaning may be understood by others;" that is to say, "I will not do it but when there is some one by to interpret." I will not pretend, says Mr. Locke, to justify this interpretation of the term τω νοι by the exact rules of the Greek idiom; but the sense of the place will, I think, bear me out in it; and he must be... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:15

15. What is it then?—What is my determination thereupon? and—rather as Greek, "but"; I will not only pray with my spirit, which ( :-) might leave the understanding unedified, BUT with the understanding also [ALFORD and ELLICOTT]. pray with the understanding also—and, by inference, I will keep silence altogether if I cannot pray with the understanding (so as to make myself understood by others). A prescient warning, mutatis mutandis, against the Roman and Greek practice of keeping liturgies in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 14:1-25

4. The need for intelligibility 14:1-25"Paul had discussed the gift of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, and the graces of the Spirit; and now he concluded this section by explaining the government of the Spirit in the public worship services of the church. Apparently there was a tendency for some of the Corinthians to lose control of themselves as they exercised their gifts, and Paul had to remind them of the fundamental principles that ought to govern the public meetings of the church.... read more