On Authority of Prof. C. Tischendorf’s Notes on The Readings of the Two Oldest Greek MSS. — The Sinaitic and The Vatican #1209. The following words found in our Common Version of the King James Bible are not found in the oldest MSS. and are evidently no part of the Divine Word. Let each student of Scripture go through his Bible and mark out these words: then read the passages affected and note the improvement. This list comprises all of the important interpolations (uninspired word additions) discovered to date.

The following is a condensed list, reviewed time and again, until what remains represents about all there is of value to us in the Tischendorf work. When the interpolations are eliminated from Mark 14:30,68,72, the account agrees exactly with that given by the other evangelists. Again, take John 4:9: it does not agree at all with Luke 9:52, which shows that even the Lord himself did have such dealings with the Samaritans. We have omitted from this list the dozens of interpolations made by early copyists with the aim of making all the narratives uniform, and the hundreds of non-essential words, the addition of which did not affect the purity of the message. From our point of view, there exist very good reasons why everything in the following condensed list of added words should be crossed out of our Bibles.

Mat 5:22  without a cause

Mat 6:13  For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Mat 6:25  or what ye shall drink*

Mat 16:2  When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

Mat 16:3  This entire verse

Mat 17:11  first

Mat 17:21  and fasting

Mat 18:11  entire verse

Mat 18:12  into the mountains*

Mat 20:7   and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive

Mat 22:13  and take him away

Mat 23:35  son of Barachias*

Mat 24:10  and shall hate one another*

Mat 24:31  sound of a*

Mat 24:41  women shall be

Mat 25:6  cometh

Mat 25:13  wherein the son of man cometh

Mat 25:14  the kingdom of heaven

Mat 26:28  new

Mat 27:52  And the graves were opened*

Mat 27:53  and went*

Mat 28:19  therefore

Mark 4:37  so that it was now full*

Mark 6:51  beyond measure, and wondered

Mark 7:8  For as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things as ye do

Mark 7:14  unto me every one of you*

Mark 9:11  first

Mark 9:24  with tears

Mark 9:29  and fasting

Mark 9:44  This entire verse

Mark 9:45  into the fire that never shall be quenched

Mark 9:46  This entire verse

Mark 9:47  fire

Mark 9:49  and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt

Mark 10:21  take up the cross

Mark 10:24   for them that, trust in riches

Mark 10:30  houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions*

Mark 14:30  twice*

Mark 14:68  and the cock crew

Mark 14:72  the second time* twice*

Mark 16:9-20  All these verses

Luke 2:40  in spirit

Luke 8:45  and sayest thou, Who touched me?

Luke 11:4  but deliver us from evil

Luke 16:16  and every man presseth into it*

Luke 17:12  which stood afar off*

Luke 17:35  women

Luke 18:11  with himself*

Luke 22:43  This entire verse

Luke 22:44  This entire verse

Luke 22:68  me, nor let me go

Luke 23:5  teaching*

Luke 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father forgive them; for they know not what they do

Luke 24:42  and of an honeycomb

John 1:25  asked him, and*

John 3:13  which is in heaven

John 4:9  for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans

John 5:3  waiting for the moving of the water

John 5:4  This entire verse

John 5:25  and now is*

John 8:1-11  All these verses

John 8:59  going through the midst of them, and so passed by

John 16:16  because I go to the Father

John 19:23  and also his coat*

John 21:25  This entire verse*

Acts 6:3  Holy Ghost and (should read—spirit of)*

Acts 6:8  faith (should read—grace)*

Acts 8:37  This entire verse

Acts 9:5  it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Acts 9:6  And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

Acts 9:31  churches (should read—church) were (should read—was)

Acts 15:32  and confirmed them*

Acts 18:5  pressed in the spirit (should read—earnestly occupied with the Word)

Act 18:21  I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but

Rom 3:22  and upon all

Rom 6:12  it in

Rom 7:6  that being dead (should read—being dead to that)

Rom 8:1  who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:26  for us

Rom 11:6  But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work

Rom 14:6  and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it

1Cor 2:1  testimony (should read—mystery)*

1Cor 6:20  and in your spirit, which are God’s

1Cor 7:5  fasting and

1Cor 10:28  for the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof

1Cor 13:5  easily

1Cor 15:24  cometh

2Co 4:14  by (should read—with)

Gal r3:1  that ye should not obey the truth

Gal 3:17  in Christ

Gal 5:19  adultery

Gal 5:21  murders

Eph 5:9  Spirit (should read—light)

Eph 5:30  of his flesh, and of his bones

2Thes 2:9  Even him

1Tim 3:16  God (should read—who)*

1Tim 4:12  in spirit*

1Tim 6:5   from such withdraw thyself*

2Tim 3:3  without natural affection*

Heb 12:18  mount that might be touched and that burned with fire (should read—fire that might be touched and burned)*

Heb 12:20  or thrust through with a dart*

Jam 5:16  Confess your faults (should read—Therefore confess your sins)*

1Pet 2:5  spiritual (before the word sacrifices)*

1Pet 3:8  courteous (should read—humble)

2Pet 1:1  God and our (should read—our Lord and)*

1John 3:16  of God

1John 5:7  in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one

1John 5:8  And there are three that bear witness in earth

1John 5:13  and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God

Rev 1:11  saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last

Rev 1:11  Churches which are in Asia

Rev 1:17  unto me, Fear not*

Rev 2:22  their (should read—her)*

Rev 5:3  neither under the earth*

Rev 5:9  us (omitted by Alexandrian MS., one of the three oldest MSS. known)

Rev 5:10  us (should read—them)* (we should read—they)*

Rev 5:13  and under the earth*

Rev 6:2  to conquer (should read—he conquered)*

Rev 9:4  neither any green thing*

Rev 9:13  the four horns of*

Rev 10:6  and the sea, and the things which are therein*

Rev 11:17  and art to come*

Rev 12:12  inhabiters of* (of before the words the sea)*

Rev 14:5  before the throne of God*

Rev 14:12 here are they*

Rev 16:5  and shalt be (should read—the holy)*

Rev 16:7 another out of*

Rev 16:11  and their sores* of their deeds*

Rev 16:17   from the throne*

Rev 17:16  upon [should read—and]

Rev 18:22  of whatsoever craft he be*

Rev 18:22  and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee*

Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished*

Rev 21:24  of them which are saved* and honor*

Rev 21:26  and honor*

Rev 22:3  more*

*Omitted by Sinaitic MS. Those not thus marked are omitted by both the Sinaitic and Vatican MSS. The Epistles to Timothy, the latter part of Hebrews, and all of Revelation, are missing from the Vatican MS. No. 1209, having been lost during the fifteen or more centuries since it was written. The Sinaitic MS. is perfect and complete and is the oldest known copy of the Scriptures, having been written (it is believed) in the year 331 A.D.