Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
New American Standard Bible
For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not
King James Version
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Holman Bible
For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.
International Standard Version
It's good for you to give thanks, but it does not build up the other person.
A Conservative Version
For thou indeed express thanks well, but the other man is not edified.
American Standard Version
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Amplified
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].
An Understandable Version
For [though] you truly offer thanksgiving acceptably, the other person is not built up.
Anderson New Testament
For you give thanks well, but the other 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.
Common New Testament
For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
Daniel Mace New Testament
thy thanksgiving indeed is right, but the other is not all edified by it.
Darby Translation
For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Godbey New Testament
For you indeed bless beautifully, but the other is not edified.
Goodspeed New Testament
You are giving thanks well enough, but it is doing him no good.
John Wesley New Testament
For thou verily givest thanks well; yet the other is not edified.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou truly givest thanks well, but the other is not built up.
King James 2000
For you verily give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For indeed you are giving thanks well, but the other person is not edified.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou verily givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.
Moffatt New Testament
Your thanksgiving may be all right, but then ??the other man is not edified!
Montgomery New Testament
You on the one hand offer a good thanksgiving, but the other is not built up.
NET Bible
For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
New Heart English Bible
For you truly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
Noyes New Testament
For thou indeed givest thanks well; but the other is not edified.
Sawyer New Testament
For you indeed give thanks well; but the other is not edified.
The Emphasized Bible
For, thou, indeed, excellently art giving thanks, but, the other, is not being built up.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For thou indeed givest thanks to God well, but another man is not edified by it.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Your thanksgiving may be excellent, but the other is not helped by it.
Webster
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Weymouth New Testament
Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor is not benefited.
Williams New Testament
You are, indeed, doing right to give thanks, but your neighbor is not built up.
World English Bible
For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
Worrell New Testament
For you, verily, give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Worsley New Testament
thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Youngs Literal Translation
for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!
Themes
Interpretation » Of foreign tongues
Prophecy and prophets » Prophesying vs. Tongues
Tongues » Tongues vs. Prophesying
Tongues (the gift) » The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 14:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues
16 Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say? 17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up. 18 I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you;
Names
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:4
The one speaking in a tongue builds himself up, but he prophesying builds up a church.
1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?