Tongues and Understanding Within

1 Corinthians 14:13-19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 14 in context

Scripture Focus

13Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15What 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.
16Else 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?
17For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
19Yet 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 14:13-19

Biblical Context

Paul says to pray in tongues but also to interpret; true edification comes when prayer and song are offered with both spirit and understanding, and he prefers five clear words in understanding over long words in tongues.

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul’s counsel invites you to treat your inner language as a doorway to your own consciousness. The unknown tongue is not an outside mystery but an inward vibration your spirit emits; the interpretation is the alignment of that vibration with the steady, clear understanding of your heart. In the Neville reading, your I AM is the interpreter and architect of reality. When you pray with the spirit you awaken a living energy; when you pair it with understanding you translate that energy into forms your consciousness can recognize and claim. The ‘room of the unlearned’ represents the outer mind that cannot yet translate your inner cadence; yet your edification begins with your own interpretation. Therefore true worship is the unity of feeling and reason—a present alignment where what you imagine and what you understand are one. If your inner phrases feel ungainly, revise them in imagination until they carry a simple, definite meaning, and imagine yourself giving thanks with that meaning fully felt. In that act you’ve already taught others in your inward church.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, rest in I AM, and revise a single inner sentence into five clear words that express the outcome you seek. Feel it now as already done, letting the emotion of certainty carry the meaning into your daily experience.

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