- Mark 7:16
- Mark 7:16
- (KJV) If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
- (1611 KJV) If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
- (1526 Tyndale) If eny man have eares to heare let him heare
- (1382 Wycliffe) If ony man haue eeris of hering, here he.
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- (NIV) Omitted
- (NASB) ["If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."]
- (THE MESSAGE) Omitted
- (NLT) Omitted
- (ESV) Omitted
- (CEV) Omitted
- (TNIV) Omitted
- (NCV) Omitted
- (RSV) Omitted
- (NAB-Roman Catholic) Omitted
- (NWT-Jehovah’s Witnesses) Omitted
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- The HCSB and NKJV both footnote this verse as not being in the oldest
manuscripts. They both cast doubt upon this verse as if they completely
excluded it. In the NKJV they always refer to the NU text. The “N” stands
for the Nestle Aland text and the “U” stands for the United Bible Societies
text. Both of these have their roots in the Hort Westcott text. The NKJV
refers to these corrupted texts 859 times in the New Testament thus casting
doubt on 859 verses. How then can the New King James be a legitimate update
of the Old King James since the Old King James does not cast a shred of
doubt upon those 859 verses? The NKJV is not really a language update but
another modern translation which places doubt upon the verity of the word of
God. There are 7,957 verses in the New Testament. By doubting 859 of them,
the New King James Version questions the trueness of 11% of the New
Testament. Is that the kind of a Bible God would give us? I think not!
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- Textus Receptus
- ei tiV ecei wta akouein akouetw
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- Hort-Westcott
- Omitted
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- Corrupted Manuscripts
- This verse is corrupted in the following manuscripts:
- Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus - Fourth century
B 03 - Vaticanus - Fourth century
- L 019 - Eighth century
- Delta 037 - Ninth Century
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- Affected Teaching
- This verse is in the midst of the chapter which deals with the Word of
God versus the traditions of men. This chapter is one of the most hated by
“works gospels.” The statement which the Lord Jesus Christ makes, “If any
man have ears to hear, let him hear” is focused upon those who are truly
saved. All human beings are born with ears and those who heard the Lord
Jesus had physical ears but what is in view here are those who can
understand spiritual truths, those with spiritual ears. The Gnostics did not
believe in the Holy Spirit as being the third person of the trinity and
therefore did not believe that He indwells the true believer, giving to them
the spiritual ears which have the ability to understand the spiritual truths
of the Bible. This is also one of the ways a person can tell if they are
saved by the way they respond to spiritual truths. If they can understand
them, then they have spiritual ears but if they are just heard with unsaved
ears, then the spiritual truths are not understood. Once again the modern
versions engender doubt upon a great spiritual truth of the Bible. If we
remain with the King James Bible our faith remains intact rather than being
fragmented in doubt and disbelief which spews from the modern versions.