13Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
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Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. …
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, …
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
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 unkn…
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