Verses Missing from Modern Bibles
Many modern Bibles leave these 16 verses out of the text, giving them at most in a footnote, and set two longer passages in brackets as doubtful. The King James Bible has every one of them. Under each are the printed Greek texts that have it, and where there's a page of evidence, the manuscripts, early translations, and church fathers that read or quote it.
Verses Left Out
Matthew 17:21
“Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Matthew 18:11
“For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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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.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Mark 7:16
“If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Mark 9:44
“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Mark 9:46
“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Mark 11:26
“But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Mark 15:28
“And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Luke 17:36
“Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”
Textus Receptus
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Luke 23:17
“(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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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.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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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.”
Textus Receptus
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Acts 15:34
“Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.”
Textus Receptus
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Acts 24:7
“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”
Textus Receptus
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Acts 28:29
“And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Romans 16:24
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Passages Set in Brackets
Mark 16:9–20
“Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. …”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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John 7:53–8:11
“And every man went unto his own house. …”
Textus Receptus · Majority Text
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Words within verses are left out or changed too, as in 1 John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16. See the best-known passages, or every place the Greek differs.
