16 Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider[a] say (A)“Amen” to (B)your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? 17 For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. 18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:16 Or of him that is without gifts

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