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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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Matthew 7:13–14 — The Wide Gate and the Narrow Way: Additions, Omissions, or Authentic Parallels?
Some witnesses lose the gate from one side of Christ’s picture. At verse 14, editions divide between for the gate is narrow and an exclamation, how narrow the gate!
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Matthew 7:21 — “My Father Which Is in Heaven”: Singular or Plural Heavens?
The title “singular or plural heavens” names a problem that is not in the Greek manuscripts. Both the Textus Receptus and the critical text use the plural οὐρανοῖς.
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Matthew 7:24 — “I Will Liken Him” or “He Shall Be Likened”?
The Textus Receptus gives Jesus the active verb: I will liken him. The critical text uses a passive: he shall be likened.
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Matthew 8:8–10 — Servant or Child? Authority and Faith in the Centurion’s Confession
Three details surround the centurion’s confession. The Greek noun παῖς can mean servant or child.
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