1 Corinthians 14:16
Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
Note Or in the Spirit
Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- bless
- 1 Corinthians 14:2, 14
- unlearned
- 1 Corinthians 14:23, 24; Isaiah 29:11, 12; John 7:15; Acts 4:13
- Amen
- 1 Corinthians 11:24; 1 Corinthians 16:24; Numbers 5:22; Deuteronomy 27:15–26; 1 Kings 1:36; 1 Chronicles 16:36; Psalm 41:13; Psalm 72:19; Psalm 89:52; Psalm 106:48; Jeremiah 28:6; Matthew 6:13; Matthew 28:20; Mark 16:20; John 21:25; Revelation 5:14; Revelation 22:20
- at
- 1 Corinthians 1:4–8