◄ 1 Corinthians 14:17 ►
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Good News Translation
Even if your prayer of thanks to God is quite good, other people are not helped at all.

New Revised Standard Version
For you may give thanks well enough, but the other person is not built up.

Contemporary English Version
You may be worshiping God in a wonderful way, but no one else will be helped.

New American Bible
For you may be giving thanks very well, but the other is not built up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.

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1 Corinthians 14:4,6 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church. . . .

Context
Prophecy and Tongues
…16Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because he knoweth not what thou sayest. 17For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified. 18I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.…
Cross References
Romans 14:19
Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.

1 Corinthians 14:4
He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

1 Corinthians 14:5
And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:16
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