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1 Corinthians 14:16-17
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16 Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider [1] say “Amen” to 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.

Footnotes

[1] 14:16 Or of him that is without gifts

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