哥林多前书 14:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你感謝固然是好，但別人卻得不著造就。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 感 谢 的 固 然 是 好 ， 无 奈 不 能 造 就 别 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ So what should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind. ¹⁶ If you praise God with your spirit, those persons there without understanding cannot say amen to your prayer of thanks, because they do not know what you are saying. ¹⁷ You may be thanking God in a good way, but the other person is not helped. ¹⁸ I thank God that I speak in different kinds of languages more than all of you. ¹⁹ But in the church meetings I would rather speak five words I understand in order to teach others than thousands of words in a different language. ²⁰ Brothers and sisters, do not think like children. In evil things be like babies, but in your thinking you should be like adults.

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
When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, his daughter was the first one to come out to meet him, playing a tambourine and dancing. She was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

1 Samuel 18:6
After David had killed the Philistine, he and the men returned home. Women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul. They sang songs of joy, danced, and played tambourines and stringed instruments.

2 Samuel 18:18
When Absalom was alive, he had set up a pillar for himself in the King's Valley. He said, "I have no son to keep my name alive." So he named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument even today.

Proverbs 14:20
The poor are rejected, even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

Proverbs 19:4
Wealthy people are always finding more friends, but the poor lose all theirs.

Hebrews 7:1
Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest for God Most High. He met Abraham when Abraham was coming back after defeating the kings. When they met, Melchizedek blessed Abraham,

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.