1 Corinthians 14:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

1 Corinthians 14:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
John 14:13-14
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. …
1 Corinthians 12:30
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Acts 4:29-31
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, …
Acts 1:14
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-14)

In this paragraph he goes on to show how vain a thing the ostentation of speaking unknown and unintelligible language must be. It was altogether unedifying and unprofitable (1 Cor. 14:6): If I come to you speaking with tongues, what will it profit you, unless I speak to you by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? It would signify nothing to utter any of these in an unkno…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Explain, “Let him who speaketh with a tongue [unknown] in his prayer (or, when praying) strive that he may interpret” [Alford]. This explanation of “pray” is needed by its logical connection with “prayer in an unknown tongue” (1Co 14:14). Though his words be unintelligible to his hearers, let him in them pray that he may obtain the gift of interpreting, which will make them “edifying” to “the…