Romans 11

Romans 11:6

:TEXT: “otherwise grace is no longer grace.”

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ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: ANOTES: “otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if [it is] by works, it is no longer by grace; otherwise work is no longer work.”

Sc B (end with “no longer grace”) Psi 104 614 1241 2495 Byz Lect syr(p,h)

KJV NIVnCOMMENTS: The additional sentence seems to have been added by copyists based on verse 6 and exchanging the words “works” and “grace.” It is absent from early manuscripts of both the Alexandrian and Western types of ancient text.

Romans 11:17

:TEXT: “in the rich root of the olive tree”

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ASV RSVn NASV NIV TEV(“strongspiritual life”) RANK: CNOTES: “in the root and the richness of the olive tree”

Sc A Db,c P 33 81 104 614 630 1241 1739 1881 2495 Byz Lect four lat vg syr(p,h)

KJV ASVn : “in the richness of the olive tree”

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RSV OTHER: “in the richness of the root of the olive tree”

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The text reading is literally three genitives together: “of the root of the richness of the olive tree.” This strangeness of this construction probably caused copyists to change it by adding “and” or omitting “of the root” or switching “root” and “richness.”

Romans 11:31

:TEXT: “they also may now obtain mercy.”

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ASV RSVn NASV NIV TEV RANK: DNOTES: “they also may obtain mercy.”

p46 A Db,c G Psi 81 104 614 630 1241 1739 1881 2495 Byz Lect lat vg syr(p,h)

KJV RSV NIVn NEB TEVnOTHER: “they also may later obtain mercy”

33 cop(south)

The word “now” is enclosed in brackets in the UBS text. Although it is possible that “now” or “later” was added here by copyists to balance the “now” in the first phrase, it is more likely that copyists who noticed that the Jews (although they could have) did not in fact obtain mercy at the time of Paul’s writing either changed “now” to “later” or omitted the word.