Corrupted Manuscripts
This verse is corrupted in the following
manuscripts:
Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus - Fourth century
B 03 - Vaticanus - Fourth century
D 05 - Bezae Cantabrigiensis - Fifth century
L 019 - Seventh century
038 - (Majuscule) Ninth century
Manuscripts which agree with the Textus Receptus
for this verse
Byzantine Text (450-1450 A.D.)
C 04 - Ephraemi Rescriptus - Fifth century
W 032 - Fourth/fifth century
Published Critical Greek Texts with Corruptions
Omit “their trespasses”
Greisbach, Johann - 1805
Lachmann, Karl - 1842
Tischendorf, Constantine - 1869
Tregelles, Samuel - 1857
Alford, Henry - 1849 revised in 1871
Westcott and Hort - 1881
Nestle - 1927 as revised in seventeenth edition in 1941
Nestle-Aland - 1979 - Twenty Sixth Edition
Nestle-Aland - 1993 - Twenty Seventh Edition
United Bible Societies - 1983 - Fourth Edition
Affected Teaching
Here again the minority text creates doubt and could even
fuel for some false teaching. Forgive my brother his sins as
in Catholicism?