Romans 16:24: Why Modern Bibles Leave It Out, and the Evidence

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Romans 16:24

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts, and the Vulgate has it. Chrysostom preached on it as verse 24, after the blessing of verse 20, about AD 391. The SBL Greek New Testament prints it.

The King James Bible

24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Read Romans 16

Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. ἀμήν. Hē charis tou kuriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou meta pantōn humōn amēn

Greek Manuscripts

Byzantine manuscripts 𝔐 9th–16th centuries

Checked against: TAGNT (Robinson–Pierpont)

Early Translations

Latin Vulgate vg Jerome, c. 400

Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)

Church Fathers

John Chrysostom Homilies on Romans 32 · c. AD 391

“Ver. 24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. See what we ought to begin and to end with everywhere!”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 ›

Checked against: NPNF1 11

Printed Greek Texts with This Reading

Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
SBL Greek New Testament · Society of Biblical Literature (2010)

Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.