16 Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an enquirer,[a] say ‘Amen’ to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? 17 You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.

18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:16 The Greek word for enquirer is a technical term for someone not fully initiated into a religion; also in verses 23 and 24.