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1 Corinthians 14:13
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Therefore the person who speaks in another tongue should pray that he can interpret.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, pray that he may interprete.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue is to pray that he may interpret.
The one who has the gift of speaking in a different language should pray for the gift to interpret what is spoken.
Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may [be gifted to] translate or explain [what he says].
Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may translate.
Therefore, the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
When we speak languages that others don't know, we should pray for the power to explain what we mean.
Therefore someone who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret.
So those who have the gift of speaking in a different language should pray that they can also interpret what they say.
Wherefore, let him that speaketh a strange tongue, pray, that he may interprete.
Thus he who speaks in an unknown tongue, pray that he may interpret it.
The person who speaks in strange tongues, then, must pray for the gift to explain what is said.
Therefore the one who speaks in a tongue must pray that he may interpret.
So then, the one speaking in a language, let him pray that he may interpret.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.
Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
Therefore, the person who speaks in a tongue should pray for the ability to interpret it.
And let him who speaketh with tongues pray that he may interpret.
And let him that speaketh in a tongue, pray that he may interpret.
Wherfore, let him that speaketh with tongue, pray that he may interprete.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
Therefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray that he may interpret.
Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power of interpreting them.
And therfor he that spekith in langage, preie, that he expowne.
Therefore let him that speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
Wherefore, let him that speaketh in an [unknown] language, pray that he may interpret.
So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
So the man who speaks in special sounds should pray for the gift to be able to tell what they mean.
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
Wherefore, he that speaketh with a tongue, let him pray that he may translate;
And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.
Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
Wherfore let him that speaketh with tonges praye that he maye interpret also.
wherefore he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;
Wherfore let him that speaketh wt tunges, praye, that he maye interprete also.
wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray for the gift of interpretation.
So, when you pray in your private prayer language, don't hoard the experience for yourself. Pray for the insight and ability to bring others into that intimacy. If I pray in tongues, my spirit prays but my mind lies fallow, and all that intelligence is wasted. So what's the solution? The answer is simple enough. Do both. I should be spiritually free and expressive as I pray, but I should also be thoughtful and mindful as I pray. I should sing with my spirit, and sing with my mind. If you give a blessing using your private prayer language, which no one else understands, how can some outsider who has just shown up and has no idea what's going on know when to say "Amen"? Your blessing might be beautiful, but you have very effectively cut that person out of it.
If you're gonna pray for the ability to speak in tongues, pray also for the ability to interpret them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
pray: 1 Corinthians 14:27, 1 Corinthians 14:28, 1 Corinthians 12:10, 1 Corinthians 12:30, Mark 11:24, John 14:13, John 14:14, Acts 1:14, Acts 4:29-31, Acts 8:15
Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 14:5 - except
Cross-References
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
I will accept only what my young warriors have already eaten, and I request that you give a fair share of the goods to my allies—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre."
she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. "Look!" she said. "My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.
For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I'm here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it."
There was a young Hebrew man with us in the prison who was a slave of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he told us what each of our dreams meant.
The waiters served Joseph at his own table, and his brothers were served at a separate table. The Egyptians who ate with Joseph sat at their own table, because Egyptians despise Hebrews and refuse to eat with them.
When the princess opened it, she saw the baby. The little boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This must be one of the Hebrew children," she said.
Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.
The Israelites sent ambassadors to King Sihon of the Amorites with this message:
A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battlefield and arrived at Shiloh later that same day. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head to show his grief.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue,.... The Hebrew, or any other, the gift of speaking with which is bestowed upon him:
pray that he may interpret; that he may have also the gift of interpretation of tongues; for as has been before hinted, these two gifts were distinct; and a man might have the one, and not the other; a man might speak in an unknown tongue, so as to understand himself, what he said, and be edified, and yet not be capable of translating it at once into the common language of the people; and if he could not do this, he would not excel in his gift to the edification of the church; whereas if he could interpret he would, and therefore, above all things, he should pray to the Father of lights, the giver of every good and perfect gift, that he might be furnished with this also.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Pray that he may interpret - Let him ask of God ability that he may explain it clearly to the church. It would seem probable that the power of speaking foreign languages, and the power of conveying truth in a clear and distinct manner, were not always found in the same person, and that the one did not of necessity imply the other. The truth seems to have been, that these extraordinary endowments of the Holy Spirit were bestowed upon people in some such way as “ordinary” talents and mental powers are now conferred; and that they became in a similar sense the “characteristic mental endowments of the individual,” and of course were subject to the same laws, and liable to the same kinds of abuse, as mental endowments are now. And as it now happens that one man may have a special faculty for acquiring and expressing himself in a foreign language who may not be by any means distinguished for clear enunciation, or capable of conveying his ideas in an interesting manner to a congregation, so it was then.
The apostle, therefore, directs such, if any there were, instead of priding themselves on their endowments, and instead of always speaking in an unknown tongue, which would he useless to the church, to “pray” for the more useful gift of being able to convey their thoughts in a clear and intelligible manner in their vernacular tongue. This would be useful. The truths, therefore, that they had the power of speaking with eminent ability in a foreign language, they ought to desire to be able to “interpret” so that they would be intelligible to the people whom they addressed in the church. This seems to me to be the plain meaning of this passage, which has given so much perplexity to commentators. Macknight renders it, however, “Let him who prayeth in a foreign language, pray so as some one may interpret;” meaning that he who prayed in a foreign language was to do it by two or three sentences at a time, so that he might be followed by an interpreter. But this is evidently forced. In order to this, it is needful to suppose that the phrase ὁ λαλῶν ho lalōn , “that speaketh,” should be rendered, contrary to its obvious and usual meaning, “who prays,” and to supply τις tis, “someone,” in the close of the verse. The obvious interpretation is that which is given above; and this proceeds only on the supposition that the power of speaking foreign languages and the power of interpreting were not always united in the same person - a supposition that is evidently true, as appears from 1 Corinthians 12:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 14:13. Pray that he may interpret. — Let him who speaks or reads the prophetic declarations in the Old Testament, in that tongue in which they were originally spoken and written, pray to God that he may so understand them himself, and receive the gift of interpretation, that he may be able to explain them in all their depth and latitude to others.
