List of Bible verses not included in modern translations

Some Bible verses in the New Testament that are present in the King James Version (KJV) are absent (or used as footnotes) in some Bible translations completed after the publication of The New Testament in the Original Greek in 1881 and the later Novum Testamentum Graece (first published in 1898 and revised many times since that date). These editions of the Greek text took into account early manuscripts of the New Testament which had not been available to translators before the 19th century, notably those of the Alexandrian text-type. The verses are present in the New King James Version, published in 1979, as well as the New American Standard Bible, though for most verses these translations include footnotes indicating doubts about their authenticity.

Most modern textual scholars consider these verses interpolations, or additions by later authors, but exceptions include advocates of the Byzantine or Majority Text and of the Received Text. When a verse is omitted, later ones in the same chapter retain their traditional numbering. Apart from omitted entire verses, there are other omitted words and phrases in some modern translations such as the famous Comma Johanneum.

Bart D. Ehrman believes that some of the most known of these verses were not part of the original text of the New Testament. “These scribal additions are often found in late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, but not in the manuscripts of the earlier centuries,” he adds. “And because the King James Bible is based on later manuscripts, such verses became part of the Bible tradition in English-speaking lands.” This same sentiment is expressed by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort.

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Keywords: questionable passages, Missing Bible verses, missing verses, modern translations, modern Bible translations, Bible is corrupt, corrupt Bible, Bible corruption, corruption of text, corruption of Bible text, disputed passages, disputed verses, translations, Bible versions, Bible translations, Comma Johanneum, Comma

Bible reference(s): Matthew 9:34, Matthew 12:47, Matthew 17:21, Matthew 18:11, Matthew 21:44, Matthew 23:14, Mark 7:16, Mark 9:44, Mark 9:46, Mark 11:26, Mark 15:28, Mark 16:9-20, Luke 17:36, Luke 22:20, Luke 22:43, Luke 22:44, Luke 23:17, Luke 24:12, Luke 24:40, John 5:4, John 7:53, John 8:1-11, Acts 8:37, Acts 15:34, Acts 24:7, Acts 28:29, Romans 16:24

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