1 Corinthians 14:14

“For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.”

"For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful." - 1 Corinthians 14:14
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What does 1 Corinthians 14:14 mean?

“1 Corinthians 14:14” in the King James Version reads, “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.” Paul is speaking into a problem in the Corinthian church: believers were valuing spiritual manifestations, especially tongues, in a…

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1 Corinthians 14:14 - "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful."
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1 Corinthians 12:14 - "For the body is not one member, but many."
1 Corinthians 14:32 - "And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets."
1 Corinthians 14:40 - "Let all things be done decently and in order."
1 Corinthians 16:14 - "Let all your things be done with charity."
1 Corinthians 14:38 - "But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant."
1 Corinthians 1:14 - "I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;"
1 Corinthians 14:17 - "For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified."
1 Corinthians 14:33 - "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints."
1 Corinthians 10:14 - "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry."
1 Corinthians 14:39 - "Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues."
1 Corinthians 14:1 - "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy."
1 Corinthians 14:3 - "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort."
1 Corinthians 14:29 - "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge."
1 Corinthians 14:8 - "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"
1 Corinthians 14:20 - "Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men."
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain."
1 Corinthians 14:4 - "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church."
1 Corinthians 14:30 - "If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace."