List of Totally or Partially Omitted, Transposed and Interpolated Bible Passages

WordSword said:

Most Bible studies will not involve one of the most significant issues of the times, which has to do with modern Bible translations. This issue of course cannot effect one’s salvation, but will effect one’s spiritual growth, not receiving all of God’s Word and being exposed to misleading information.

The majority of those who copied scriptural manuscripts (scribes) discarded a small amount of manuscripts that did not agree with the majority of extant copies. Two sources that were rejected for copying were the codex Vaticanus and the codex Sinaiticus. The codex Alexandrinus is included but is excessively missing much of the OT and NT, along with much decadence of page condition, torn leaves and lacunae on the edges of almost every page of Revelation.

These oldest manuscript copies just recently became available (19th century) for making translations. The Vaticanus was discovered in the Vatican library and remained perdu for fifteen centuries, until it was discovered on a shelf. The Sinaiticus was discovered at St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. A monk was burning some of the leaves (probably to keep warm) when Constantine von Tischendorf, a German biblical scholar, located portions of the manuscript there. He first found some leaves in a waste basket during his initial visit in 1844. A larger portion of the manuscript was discovered during his subsequent visit in 1859.

The recently found manuscript copies did not wear out like the majority of extant copies because they fell into disuse due to the fact that most of the scribes would not use them for copying purposes.

Totally Omitted Passages​

Matthew 17:21
Matthew 18:11
Mat 23:14
Mark 7:16
Mark 9:44
Mark 9:46
Mark 11:26
Mark 15:28
Luke 23:17
Acts 24:7
1Jn 5:7

Partially Omitted, Transposed or Interpolated Passages

Matthew 1:25
Matthew 19:9
Matthew 19:17
Matthew 20:7
Matthew 20:16
Matthew 20:22, 23
Matthew 21:12
Matthew 22:13
Matthew 23:4
Matthew 23:8
Matthew 23:19
Matthew 24:7
Matthew 25:13
Matthew 26:28
Matthew 26:60
Matthew 27:24
Matthew 27:35
Matthew 27:64
Matthew 28:2
Matthew 28:6
Matthew 28:9​

Matthew 5:22
Matthew 5:44
Matthew 6:4
Matthew 6:6
Matthew 6:13
Matthew 6:18
Matthew 9:13
Matthew 15:8
Matthew 15:6
Matthew 16:3
Matthew 16:20
Matthew 18:35
Matthew 19:9
Matthew 19:17
Matthew 20:7
Matthew 20:16
Matthew 20:22, 23
Matthew 21:12
Matthew 22:13
Matthew 23:4
Matthew 23:8
Matthew 23:19
Matthew 24:7
Matthew 25:13
Matthew 26:28
Matthew 26:60
Matthew 27:24
Matthew 27:35
Matthew 27:64
Matthew 28:2
Matthew 28:6
Matthew 28:9
Mark 1:2
Mark 1:14
Mark 1:31
Mark 3:15
Mark 4:24
Mark 5:36
Mark 6:33
Mark 6:11
Mark 6:51
Mark 7:8
Mark 8:26
Mark 9:23
Mark 9:29
Mark 9:45
Mark 9:49
Mark 10:21
Mark 10:24
Mark 11:10
Mark 12:23
Mark 12:29-30
Mark 12:33
Mark 13:8
Mark 13:33
Mark 13:14
Mark 14:22
Mark 14:27
Mark 14:68
Mark 14:70
Luke 1:28
Luke 2:33
Luke 2:40
Luke 2:43
Luke 4:8
Luke 4:4
Luke 4:18
Luke 4:41
Luke 5:38
Luke 7:31
Luke 8:43
Luke 8:48
Luke 8:54
Luke 9:10
Luke 9:54
Luke 9:55
Luke 9:56
Luke 9:57
Luke 10:19
Luke 11:2
Luke 11:11
Luke 11:29
Luke 11:44
Luke 11:54
Luke 12:31
Luke 12:39
Luke 17:3
Luke 17:9
Luke 18:24
Luke 19:45
Luke 20:13
Luke 20:30
Luke 20:33
Luke 21:4
Luke 22:31
Luke 22:64
Luke 22:68
Luke 23:23
Luke 23:38
Luke 23:42
Luke 24:1
Luke 24:42
Luke 24:49
Luke 24:53
John 1:14
John 1:18
John 1:27
John 3:13
John 3:15
John 3:16
John 4:42
John 5:16
John 6:11
John 6:47
John 8:9
John 8:59
John 9:35
John 11:41
John 12:1
John 16:16
John 17:12
John 19:16
John 20:29
Acts 2:30
Acts 2:31
Acts 3:11
Acts 3:26
Acts 7:30
Acts 7:37
Acts 9:5,6
Acts 10:6
Acts 9:29
Acts 10:21
Acts 10:30
Acts 15:18
Acts 15:24
Acts 15:37
Acts 16:31
Acts 17:5
Acts 18:17
Acts 18:21
Acts 20:15
Acts 20:24
Acts 20:25
Acts 20:32
Acts 21:8
Acts 21:22
Acts 21:25
Acts 22:9
Acts 23:9
Acts 24:6
Acts 24:8
Acts 24:15
Acts 24:26
Acts 25:16
Acts 26:30
Acts 28:16
Romans 1:16
Romans 8:1
Romans 9:28
Romans 10:15
Romans 11:6
Romans 13:9
Romans 14:6
Romans 14:21
Romans 15:29
1 Corinthians 2:4
1 Corinthians 4:6
1 Corinthians 6:20
1 Corinthians 7:29
1 Corinthians 10:28
1 Corinthians 11:24
1 Corinthians 11:29
1 Corinthians 15:47
1 Corinthians 16:22-23
2 Corinthians 4:4
2 Corinthians 4:10
Galatians 3:1
Galatians 4:7
Galatians 5:21
Galatians 6:15
Ephesians 3:9
Ephesians 3:14
Ephesians 5:30
Ephesians 6:10
Philippians 3:16
Colossians 1:2
Colossians 1:14
Colossians 2:2
Colossians 2:18
Colossians 3:6
1 Thessalonians 1:1
1 Thessalonians 5:27
2 Thessalonians 1:8
1 Timothy 3:16
1 Timothy 4:12
1 Timothy 5:16
1 Timothy 6:5
2 Timothy 1:11
2 Timothy 2:9
2 Timothy 4:22
Philemon 1:12
Titus 1:4
Hebrews 1:3
Hebrews 2:7
Hebrews 7:21
Hebrews 10:9
Hebrews 10:30
Hebrews 10:34
Hebrews 11:11
Hebrews 11:37
Hebrews 12:20
1 Peter 1:22
1 Peter 4:1
1 Peter 4:14
1 Peter 5:5
1 Peter 5:10-11
2 Peter 1:21
2 Peter 2:17
2 Peter 3:10
1 John 1:7
1 John 2:7
1 John 4:3
1 John 4:9
1 John 4:19
1 John 5:7, 8
1 John 5:13
2 John 1:9
Jude 1:25
Revelation 1:8
Revelation 1:11
Revelation 1:20
Revelation 2:13
Revelation 2:15
Revelation 5:14
Revelation 6:1, 3, 5, 7
Revelation 11:17
Revelation 12:12
Revelation 12:17
Revelation 14:5
Revelation 15:2
Revelation 16:17
Revelation 18:20
Revelation 20:9
Revelation 20:12
Revelation 21:24
Revelation 22:19

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WordSword said:

Hi, and appreciate your reply and concern! With me, the footnotes just discredit the Word because they indicate that the information (Scripture) listed should not be included. Also, many of the passages in the modern versions are changed by the scholar using interpolations (adding new materials) and transpositions (rearranging the position of
words, often resulting is an entirely differently thought). These are the most difficult because most readers are that familiar with these type of changes.

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WordSword said:

It's ok of course that we are of a different understanding about this issue. In my opinion the most genuine translations are those from the Traditional Text base manuscript copies, because this base contains the majority of all available manuscript copies.

"The Majority Text is a compilation of readings found in the majority of the more than 5,800 Greek New Testament manuscripts that exist. However, there is no single manuscript or finite number that constitutes the "Majority Text" itself, but rather a specific set of readings chosen because they represent the consensus of the most numerous manuscripts within the Byzantine text-type tradition." -AI Google


"The term "minority text" can refer to various concepts, but for the Alexandrian text-type, which is a significant minority text, there are approximately 30 surviving Greek manuscripts, although this number is small compared to the vast number of Byzantine manuscripts, according to a Wikipedia article. These Alexandrian manuscripts represent a much smaller collection of evidence that differs from the majority texts of the New Testament.

"The Minority Text is not a single collection but a category representing the minority of Greek New Testament manuscripts that differ from the majority Byzantine tradition. There is no single fixed number of manuscripts because it's a concept rather than a specific edition, with estimates suggesting the minority texts represent about 20% less of the total manuscripts." -AI Google

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

It was a shock to my system when I found out that we have no original works (except maybe one scrap) for any Scripture. All we have are copies and copies of copies which for centuries were copied by hand. Obviously, they are not all identical. So necessity dictates that we must choose among the variants which is most trustworthy. And transparency dictates that we must include footnotes where significant variants exist. How else could we do it?

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WordSword said:

Most Bible studies will not involve one of the most significant issues of the times, which has to do with modern Bible translations. This issue of course cannot effect one’s salvation, but will effect one’s spiritual growth, not receiving all of God’s Word and being exposed to misleading information.

The majority of those who copied scriptural manuscripts (scribes) discarded a small amount of manuscripts that did not agree with the majority of extant copies. Two sources that were rejected for copying were the codex Vaticanus and the codex Sinaiticus. The codex Alexandrinus is included but is excessively missing much of the OT and NT, along with much decadence of page condition, torn leaves and lacunae on the edges of almost every page of Revelation.

These oldest manuscript copies just recently became available (19th century) for making translations. The Vaticanus was discovered in the Vatican library and remained perdu for fifteen centuries, until it was discovered on a shelf. The Sinaiticus was discovered at St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. A monk was burning some of the leaves (probably to keep warm) when Constantine von Tischendorf, a German biblical scholar, located portions of the manuscript there. He first found some leaves in a waste basket during his initial visit in 1844. A larger portion of the manuscript was discovered during his subsequent visit in 1859.

The recently found manuscript copies did not wear out like the majority of extant copies because they fell into disuse due to the fact that most of the scribes would not use them for copying purposes.

Totally Omitted Passages​

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PrincetonGuy said:

I see that you have “conveniently” omitted the very many places where the KJV omitted words, phrases, and whole sentences from the Bible. Starting from the beginning of the KJV, we find the first omission in Genesis 4:8,

8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Many centuries ago, the Jewish people began to esteem some writing more highly than others. The writings that they especially esteemed they began to circulate by making copies of them and passing them around. These Jewish people, like all people, were fallible and made coping errors. These errant copies were in turn copied and the people who copied them copied the errors and added errors of their own. Beginning late in the 5th century and continuing on through the 10th century groups of Jewish scholars and scribes known at the Masoretes began producing copies of the manuscripts that included diacritical marks in an effort to standardize the pronunciation of the words and added paragraph and verse divisions.

However, the Dead Sea Scrolls dating from about 150 BC – 75 AD, reveal that during this period there was no standardized text of the ancient Hebrew documents that eventually became our Old Testament. Furthermore, the Septuagint, a Greek Translation of the Hebrew documents made during the third and second centuries BC, was made from texts very different from the later Masoretic Text. By 70 AD, multiple versions of the Hebrew Scriptures existed. Moreover, the Peshitta (a Syriac translation made in the second century AD), the Samaritan Pentateuch (a Samaritan translation of the Pentateuch made in about 120 AD., and the Latin Vulgate (a Latin translation of the Bible made primarily by Jerome in the last part of the 4th century AD) all differ significantly from the Masoretic Text but partially agree with each other. The RSV and the NRSV take into consideration all of these texts in an effort to provide us with a translation as close to the original Hebrew writings as possible. For example, Genesis 4:8, in the KJV, reads,

8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

In the RSV, it reads,

8. Cain said to Abel his brother, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

In the NRSV, it reads,

8. Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

The RSV and the NRSV include a textual note that accurately reads, “Sam Gk Syr Compare Vg: MT lacks [Let us go out to the field].” That is, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and the Syriac Peshitta include the quote, the Latin Vulgate rewords the quote to “suum egrediamur foras” (let us go outside). The Masoretic Text, however lacks the quote. Because the genuineness of the quote is so well supported, it is included in the RSV and the NRSV. The NIV and the CEV include the quote (the CEV only loosely) and a partially incorrect note! The ESV and the NASB omit the quote but include an incorrect note! The RSV and the NRSV do not cost any more than the problematic translations—so why settle for anything less?

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WordSword said:

Totally Omitted Passages​

Matthew 17:21
Matthew 18:11
Mat 23:14
Mark 7:16
Mark 9:44
Mark 9:46
Mark 11:26
Mark 15:28
Luke 23:17
Acts 24:7
1Jn 5:7

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The Liturgist said:

This threat isn’t specifically about the KJV but rather about the question of the Majority Text vs. the ”Minority Text” (which I suppose is no longer the minority since the majority of recent Bible translations lean heavily into the Alexandrian text type; while sadly the fascinating Western text type used in the second century Vetus Latina, the original Latin translation of the New Testament (and of the Septuagint) and the Vetus Syra, the first Syriac translation of the four canonical Gospels as such (not counting the Diatessaron, a Gospel harmony composed by Tatian, who later became the leader of a heretical cult related to the Severians and other Syrian docetic-emanationist heretical sects).

I would also note that the Majority Text, as a broad category including the Byzantine text type and certain ancient translations from it such as the Peshitta, the Vulgate, various ancient Coptic, Georgian and Ge’ez New Testaments, and the traditional Church Slavonic Bible translated by Saints Cyril and Methodius, is not something accessible in English only via the KJV or NKJV; there are many other English language translations that are based upon it, such as the Geneva BIble, the Bishops’ Bible, various translations of translations, such as the Etheridge and Murdock translations of the Peshitta and the Challoner Douai-Rheims, and some of the more recent translations.

KJV-onlyism is no longer a thing on ChristianForums thankfully, and those of us who like the Byzantine Text Type or are members of churches that primarily use the Byzantine Text Type for liturgical purposes, which include among others all Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, would resent a view that seeks to associate our preferred text type with the KJV in all cases.

Now I personally love the KJV; it is not my favorite English Bible but it’s easily in the no. 2 or no. 3 position. The NKJV I am a bit less thrilled with.

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

It was a shock to my system when I found out that we have no original works (except maybe one scrap) for any Scripture. All we have are copies and copies of copies which for centuries were copied by hand. Obviously, they are not all identical. So necessity dictates that we must choose among the variants which is most trustworthy. And transparency dictates that we must include footnotes where significant variants exist. How else could we do it?

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timewerx said:

Topping it off, Jesus even criticized the study of scriptures, Even pointing out errors in scriptures!

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ChubbyCherub said:

Where is this in the bible, please?

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timewerx said:

What's even more shocking is that Jesus promised the Holy Spirit leading us to all truths. The Bible did not exist yet when Jesus said those things. But not surprising either that Jesus already knew the Bible will come centuries later.

Yet, Jesus said nothing about studying the Bible nor the scriptures after He leaves for the Father. He made explicit commands like "Love one another", "believe in the One He sent", "The Spirit will come".

Given the massive influence of the Bible since its arrival centuries later, Jesus made no mention of it. It would have avoided much ambiguity if Jesus said the Holy Spirit will ALSO guide you in studying the scriptures. But we have nothing of that sort.

Topping it off, Jesus even criticized the study of scriptures, Even pointing out errors in scriptures!

Ironically, it's all there in the Canon Bible! Even the Bible says it's not the guide!

We've been fooled. I just wish I had known this a lot sooner.

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timewerx said:

John 5:16-18 - Jesus critique of Sabbath even saying, He and the Father is always at work

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timewerx said:

John 5:39 - searching the scriptures presuming to find eternal life in it.

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

This was not pointing out errors in Scripture, but faulty understandings of it as it applied to Jesus in that He is the Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8). And He also pointed out their hypocrisy in Luke 13:15-16 because even they understood that Scripture did not prohibit all work on the Sabbath.

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timewerx said:

John 5:16-18 - Jesus critique of Sabbath even saying, He and the Father is always at work

John 5:39 - searching the scriptures presuming to find eternal life in it.

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PrincetonGuy said:

Virtually all published textual critics of the New Testament strongly favor the Alexandrian text-type over the Byzantine text-type.

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