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1Co 14:17 King James For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
givest thanks--The prayers of the synagogue were called "eulogies," because to each prayer was joined a thanksgiving. Hence the prayers of the Christian Church also were called blessings and giving of thanks. This illustrates Col 4:2; Th1 5:17-18. So the Kaddisch and Keduscha, the synagogue formulÃ&brvbr; of "hallowing" the divine "name" and of prayer for the "coming of God's kingdom," answer to the Church's Lord's Prayer, repeated often and made the foundation on which the other prayers are built [TERTULLIAN, Prayer].
 
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17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;