1 Corinthians 14:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

1 Corinthians 14:9 —

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1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

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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. 9)

9. So ... ye--who have life; as opposed to “things without life” (1Co 14:7). by the tongue--the language which ye speak in. ye shall speak--Ye will be speaking into the air, that is, in vain (1Co 9:26).