1 Corinthians 14:2,14
1 Corinthians 14:1-3 The Message (MSG)
Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth. If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him. But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you’re letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you.
1 Corinthians 14:13-17 The Message (MSG)
So, when you pray in your private prayer language, don’t hoard the experience for yourself. Pray for the insight and ability to bring others into that intimacy. If I pray in tongues, my spirit prays but my mind lies fallow, and all that intelligence is wasted. So what’s the solution? The answer is simple enough. Do both. I should be spiritually free and expressive as I pray, but I should also be thoughtful and mindful as I pray. I should sing with my spirit, and sing with my mind. If you give a blessing using your private prayer language, which no one else understands, how can some outsider who has just shown up and has no idea what’s going on know when to say “Amen”? Your blessing might be beautiful, but you have very effectively cut that person out of it.
1 Corinthians 14:2 King James Version (KJV)
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 14:14 King James Version (KJV)
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:2 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:14 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:2 New Century Version (NCV)
I will explain why. Those who have the gift of speaking in different languages are not speaking to people; they are speaking to God. No one understands them; they are speaking secret things through the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:14 New Century Version (NCV)
If I pray in a different language, my spirit is praying, but my mind does nothing.
1 Corinthians 14:2 American Standard Version (ASV)
For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:14 American Standard Version (ASV)
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:2 New International Version (NIV)
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:14 New International Version (NIV)
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
I Corinthians 14:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:2 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For one who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to people but to God; for no one understands him or catches his meaning, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries [secret truths, hidden things].
1 Corinthians 14:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive [because it does not understand what my spirit is praying].
1 Corinthians 14:2 New Living Translation (NLT)
For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious.
1 Corinthians 14:14 New Living Translation (NLT)
For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying.
1 Corinthians 14:2 The Passion Translation (TPT)
When someone speaks in tongues, no one understands a word he says, because he’s not speaking to people, but to God—he is speaking intimate mysteries in the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:14 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For if I am praying in a tongue, my spirit is engaged in prayer but I have no clear understanding of what is being said.