14:15
”So what shall I do?”. It is not a matter of tongues or not tongues. We will pray in tongues, sing in tongues, pray with our minds, and sing with understanding. We recognise what the gift of tongues is, and use it in the right place and in the right way.
14:16,17
When in a gathering, if all we do is pray in tongues we benefit no one else. No one else in the gathering knows what we are saying (and neither do we for that matter!), so they are in no position to agree (say ‘Amen’) with what we are saying. So note the importance of the mind here. We communicate with each other intelligibly. The person praying in tongues may be “giving thanks well enough”, but no one else benefits. Note also the implication that one of things we are doing when praying in tongues is giving thanks to God.
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