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


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1 Corinthians 14 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians 14 2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
Romans 8 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Job 34 16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
1 Corinthians 14 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians 14 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
1 Corinthians 14 9 So 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.
John 17 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
2 Timothy 2 7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
Matthew 6 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew 10 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
1 Corinthians 14 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
1 Corinthians 2 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 14 18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
1 Corinthians 14 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
1 Corinthians 14 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
Proverbs 2 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
1 Corinthians 12 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
Acts 2 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
1 Corinthians 14 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
Isaiah 50 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Psalms 139 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Proverbs 19 2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Romans 8 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Ezekiel 3 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
1 Corinthians 14 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Isaiah 29 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Jeremiah 7 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
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.
Colossians 1 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Matthew 15 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Proverbs 2 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Galatians 3 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Job 8 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
1 Corinthians 2 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Jeremiah 42 20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Colossians 4 3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
1 John 2 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
Job 6 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Psalms 55 1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Exodus 32 18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
Ecclesiastes 11 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
John 18 21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
1 Corinthians 2 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Job 16 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
1 Samuel 12 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Corinthians 2 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Job 32 8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.