Romans 8:1 No condemnation?

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What's In Your Bible: Romans 8:1

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

These last 10 words are found:

Majority of all remaining Greek manuscripts including: 33, 88, 104, 181, 326, 330, 451, 614, 630, 1241, 1877, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, and 2495

Several uncials (capital letter Greek mss. D correction, K, L, P, Sinaiticus correction

Old Latin copies (ar, e, o) which predate anything we have in Greek.

“who walk not after the flesh” partial reading found in vast majority of Greek manuscripts like Codex A, Codex D06, Codex Y, and several minuscules (such as 81, 256, 263, 365, 629, 1319, 1573, 1852, and 2127).

Latin Vulgate

Old Syriac Peshitta.

Early church writers:

Theodoret

Ps-Oecumenius

Theophylact

Partial citation of the verse by Basil (379 AD)

Translations:

Syriac Harkelian

Georgian

Slavonic ancient versions.

Reformation Bibles:

Tyndale

Coverdale

Matthew's Bible

The Great Bible

Geneva Bible

Bishops' Bible

King James Bible

Beza N.T. 1599

Codex Alexandrinus includes "who walk not after the flesh", but it omits "but after the Spirit".

Vaticanus, C, and the uncorrected Sinaiticus omit all of these words. Just three Egyptian texts.

Special thanks to Will Kinney for his never ending research.

Dr. Steven A. Hite

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