1 Corinthians 14:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶ Otherwise, if you bless and render thanks with [your] spirit [^[a]thoroughly aroused by the Holy Spirit], how can anyone in the position of an outsider or he who is not gifted with [interpreting of unknown] tongues, say the Amen to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?^(A)

¹⁷ To be sure, you may give thanks well (nobly), but the bystander is not edified [it does him no good].

¹⁸ I thank God that I speak in [strange] tongues (languages) more than any of you or all of you put together;