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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Corinthians 14:17

Thou geuest well thankes, but the other is not edifyed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Interpretation;   Language;   Preaching;   Tongues (the Gift);   Worship;   The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Tongues;   Understanding;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Worship of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Thanksgiving;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Ethics;   Spiritual Gifts;   Tongues, Gift of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Edification;   Tongues Gift of;   Voice;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Edification;   Tongues, Gift of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Builder;   Praise;   Teach;   Tongues, Gift of;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
You might be saying a thousand thanks to God, but not a single person will understand it. If they don't understand it, they ain't helped by your words.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.
Legacy Standard Bible
For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.
Bible in Basic English
For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.
Darby Translation
For *thou* indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Christian Standard Bible®
For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.
World English Bible
For you most assuredly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For thou verily givest thanks well; yet the other is not edified.
Weymouth's New Testament
Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor is not benefited.
King James Version (1611)
For thou verily giuest thankes well: but the other is not edified.
Literal Translation
For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
Mace New Testament (1729)
thy thanksgiving indeed is right, but the other is not all edified by it.
Amplified Bible
You are giving thanks well enough [in a way that God is glorified], but the other person [who does not understand you] is not edified [and spiritually strengthened since he cannot join in your thanksgiving].
American Standard Version
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Revised Standard Version
For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Thou verely gevest thankes well but the other is not edyfied.
Update Bible Version
For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Young's Literal Translation
for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!
New Century Version
You may be thanking God in a good way, but the other person is not helped.
New English Translation
For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
Berean Standard Bible
You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.
Contemporary English Version
You may be worshiping God in a wonderful way, but no one else will be helped.
Complete Jewish Bible
For undoubtedly you are giving thanks very nicely, but the other person is not being edified.
English Standard Version
For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou verely giuest thankes well, but the other is not edified.
George Lamsa Translation
For indeed you bless well, but your fellow man is not enlightened.
Hebrew Names Version
For you most assuredly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
International Standard Version
It's good for you to give thanks, but it does not build up the other person.
Etheridge Translation
For thou blessest well, but thy neighbour is not edified.
Murdock Translation
Thou blessest, indeed, very well; but thy neighbor is not edified.
New King James Version
For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
New Living Translation
You will be giving thanks very well, but it won't strengthen the people who hear you.
New Life Bible
You are honoring and giving thanks to God, but it is not helping other people.
English Revised Version
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
New Revised Standard
For you may give thanks well enough, but the other person is not built up.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thou, indeed, excellently art giving thanks, but, the other, is not being built up.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.
King James Version
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Lexham English Bible
For indeed you are giving thanks well, but the other person is not edified.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou veryly geuest thankes well: but the other is not edified.
Easy-to-Read Version
You may be thanking God in a good way, but others are not helped.
New American Standard Bible
For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.
Good News Translation
Even if your prayer of thanks to God is quite good, other people are not helped at all.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou doist wel thankyngis, but an othir man is not edefied.

Contextual Overview

15 How shal it be then? Namely thus: I wil praye with ye sprete, and wil praye with the vnderstodinge also: I wil synge psalmes in the sprete, and wil synge spalmes with ye vnderstondinge also. 16 But whan thou geuest thankes with ye sprete, how shal he that occupieth the rowme of the vnlearned, saye Ame at thy geuynge of thankes, seynge he knoweth not what thou sayest? 17 Thou geuest well thankes, but the other is not edifyed. 18 I thanke my God, that I speake with tunges more then ye all. 19 Yet had I leuer in the cogregacion to speake fyue wordes with my vnderstondinge yt I maye enfourme other also, rather then ten thousande wordes with tunges. 20 Brethren be not children in vnderstondinge, howbeit as concerninge maliciousnes be childre, but in vnderstondinge be parfecte.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: 1 Corinthians 14:4, 1 Corinthians 14:6

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 10:23 - edify 1 Corinthians 12:7 - General

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
Now whan Iephthae came to Mispa vnto his house, beholde, his doughter wente out to mete him with tabrettes and daunces: and she was his onely childe, & he had els nether sonne ner doughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
It fortuned, that whan Dauid was come agayne from the slaughter of the Philistyne, the wemen wente out of all the cities of Israel with songes & daunses, to mete kynge Saul, with tymbrels, with myrth, and with fyddels.
2 Samuel 18:18
Absalom had set him vp a piler whyle he was yet alyue, which stode in the kynges valley, for he sayde: I haue no sonne, therfore shall this be a remembraunce of my name: and he called the piler after his owne name. And vnto this daie it is yet called Absaloms place.
Proverbs 14:20
The poore is hated euen of his owne neghbours, but the riche hath many frendes.
Proverbs 19:4
Riches make many frendes, but the poore is forsake of his owne frendes.
Hebrews 7:1
This Melchisedech kynge of Salem (which beynge prest of the most hye God, met Abraham as he returned agayne from the slaughter of the kynges, & blessed him,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou verily givest thanks well,.... In very proper words, and pertinent expressions, with great affection and devotion, suitable to the service;

but the other is not edified; the rest of the people, who do not understand the language in which thanks are given; "thy friend", as the Syriac version reads it; or thy next neighbour, he that stands by thee, receives no manner of profit by it, because he does not understand what is said.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou verily givest thanks well - That is, even if you use a foreign language. You do it with the heart; and it is accepted by God as your offering; but the other, who cannot understand it, cannot be benefited by it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. Thou verily givest thanks well — Because he felt gratitude, and, from a sense of his obligation, gave praise to God; but because this was in an unknown tongue, those who heard him received no edification.


 
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