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Matthew 5:37 — “Let Your Communication Be, Yea, Yea”: The Imperative Form of the Saying
One final vowel changes the verb from command to prediction. The received text reads ἔστω, “let it be.” A smaller ancient stream reads ἔσται, “it will be.” The Textus Receptus and the modern critical text…
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Matthew 5:44 — Love, Bless, Do Good, and Pray: The Full Command Concerning Enemies
The critical text shortens this fourfold command to two parts: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. The Textus Receptus also says to bless those who curse and do good to those who hate.
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Matthew 5:47 — Publicans or Gentiles? Identifying Christ’s Comparison
The final comparison varies. The Textus Receptus says publicans; the critical text says Gentiles.
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Matthew 6:1 — Alms or Righteousness? What Must Not Be Practiced for Human Praise?
The Textus Receptus reads alms. The critical text reads righteousness: “Do not practice your righteousness before men.” One word either begins the first example or serves as a heading over alms, prayer, and…
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Matthew 6:4, 6, 18 — “Shall Reward Thee Openly”: A Threefold Refrain under Review
The words shall reward thee openly close Christ’s teaching on alms, prayer, and fasting in the Textus Receptus. Critical editions omit openly at verses 4, 6, and 18.
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Matthew 6:8 — “Your Father Knoweth”: Does the Possessive Pronoun Matter?
The received text says your Father; some witnesses say simply the Father or otherwise shorten the possessive. A more expansive ancient reading says he knows before the worshipper opens his mouth.
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Matthew 6:12 — “As We Forgive” or “As We Have Forgiven”? The Petition Concerning Debts
The Textus Receptus uses a present verb: as we forgive. The critical text uses an aorist that is often rendered as we have forgiven.
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Matthew 6:13 — “Thine Is the Kingdom”: The Doxology of the Lord’s Prayer
The doxology of the Lord’s Prayer is absent from several early witnesses, including Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. It stands in the Textus Receptus and the broad Greek church tradition, though copies vary in its…
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Matthew 6:15 — “Their Trespasses”: Has the Warning about Forgiveness Been Reduced?
The final words their trespasses are absent from a notable early stream. Sinaiticus omits them; Vaticanus keeps them.
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Matthew 6:25 — “What Ye Shall Eat, or What Ye Shall Drink”: The Full Saying on Anxiety
The words or what ye shall drink have uneven support. Some witnesses omit the whole phrase; others keep drink but change the connector between eating and drinking.
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Matthew 6:28 — How the Lilies Grow: Competing Forms of Christ’s Illustration
The witnesses vary in the number and form of “grow,” in the order of the clauses, and in attempts to explain what lilies do not do. An Oxyrhynchus fragment preserves a related saying about not carding or…
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Matthew 6:33 — “The Kingdom of God”: Does “of God” Belong in the Text?
The words of God are omitted by some important witnesses. Modern Greek editions do not speak with one voice: SBLGNT omits them, NA28 brackets them, and the Tyndale House edition prints them without brackets.
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