List of omitted Bible verses

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This is a list of Bible verses that are present in the King James Version but absent from most bible translations completed after 1881. In particular these specific verses are not in the New International Version, but the list for other modern translations is similar.

The designation omitted Bible verses is used in the technical sense, to indicate text for which a verse number has been reserved but which is not present. It is not a statement concerning the validity of the King-James-Only Movement.

All verses listed are from the King James Version, unless noted.

Contents

[edit] Matthew 17:21

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. [1]

It is possible that this verse is a duplicate of Mark 9:29. [2]

[edit] Matthew 18:11

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. [3]

Bruce Metzger argues that this verse was "manifestly borrowed by copyists from Luke 19:10."[4]

[edit] Matthew 23:14

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. [5]

[edit] Mark 7:16

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. [6]

[edit] Mark 9:44 & 9:46

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. [7]

These two verses are identical to Mark 9:48.

[edit] Mark 11:26

But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. [8]

[edit] Mark 15:28

And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.[9]

[edit] Luke 17:36

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. [10]

[edit] Luke 23:17

For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast. [11]

[edit] John 5:4

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. [12]

[edit] Acts 8:37

And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. [13]

[edit] Acts 15:34

Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. [14]

[edit] Acts 24:7

But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, [15]

[edit] Acts 28:29

And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves. [16]

[edit] Romans 16:24

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. [17]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Matthew 17:21
  2. ^ Translation errors and forgeries in the Bible
  3. ^ Matthew 18:11
  4. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Stuttgart: UBS, 1975), 45.
  5. ^ Matthew 23:14
  6. ^ Mark 7:16
  7. ^ Mark 9:44
  8. ^ Mark 11:26
  9. ^ Mark 15:28
  10. ^ Luke 17:36
  11. ^ Luke 23:17
  12. ^ John 5:4
  13. ^ Acts 8:37
  14. ^ Acts 15:34
  15. ^ Acts 24:7
  16. ^ Acts 28:29
  17. ^ Romans 16:24