1 Corinthians 14:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁷ For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ To be sure, you may give thanks well (nobly), but the bystander is not edified [it does him no good].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ You may offer a beautiful prayer of thanksgiving, but the other person is not being built up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ In this case, certainly, you give thanks well, but the other person is not edified.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

1 Corinthians 14:17 Cross References

Romans 14:19

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

1 Corinthians 14:18

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

1 Corinthians 14:4

He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

1 Corinthians 14:5

I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

1 Corinthians 14:6

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?