Matthew 6:13 — “for thine is the kingdom”: where did it go?
Modern Bibles leave out the doxology when they print reading A, where the prayer ends; reading B includes the doxology. The supplied editions preserve both endings at Matthew 6:13.
What the APB prints.
Every witness, on the record.
What a blind committee did here.
The APB's translation committee works blind: it is never told it is translating the Bible, never given a book name or a verse number, and it never sees the witnesses above. Whatever it did at this verse, it did on the language alone — and its record is public.
The blind committee's record gives no rationale note matching this crux, and the pericope audit verdict is "clean." The APB prints Matthew 6:13 as ending with rescue from the evil, then moves directly to Matthew 6:14. That is all the supplied committee record shows here.
The case for each reading.
If the prayer ends plain
Reading A treats Matthew 6:13 as ending with ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ. In the supplied apparatus, πονηροῦ is aligned with WH, Treg, and NA28; the NA28 witness note likewise says that its text ends the prayer at deliverance from the evil one. The packet further states that all the critical editions end the prayer without the doxology. On this reading, the close is plain: the request is for rescue from evil, followed immediately by Matthew 6:14 in the APB printing. The issue is therefore not whether the prayer remains complete as a prayer, but whether its closing words include a further declaration of kingdom, power, and glory.
If the doxology belongs
Reading B prints Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοῦς αἰῶνας Ἀμήν after the request for rescue. The supplied apparatus marks this addition with RP, and the Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform witness explicitly prints the full doxology. Its witness note identifies this as the Byzantine text's form of the ending. On this reading, Matthew 6:13 closes not merely with the petition but with praise directed to God. The practical stake is the form of the prayer's final line: a plain ending after deliverance from evil, or a concluding doxology.
The packet supplies competing printed forms in two editions and an apparatus line, but no further account of how the variation arose. The wording changes the ending of Matthew 6:13: either the prayer stops after deliverance from evil or it concludes with a doxology. It does not by itself settle doctrine; doctrines rest on many passages.
Asked plainly.
Why do some Bibles omit for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory?
They print reading A, which ends Matthew 6:13 with ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ. Reading B prints the doxology after that ending.
Which edition includes the doxology in Matthew 6:13?
The Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform prints Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοῦς αἰῶνας Ἀμήν.
Does the APB include the doxology?
No. The APB prints Matthew 6:13 with rescue from the evil and then proceeds to Matthew 6:14.
More places where the manuscripts argue.
Witness readings for critical editions are quoted from the SBLGNT apparatus (CC BY 4.0); Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible). Readings of ancient manuscripts and versions are cited as published scholarly fact with their sources linked above. Nothing on this page declares a winner — the evidence is the point.
Weigh it yourself.
The registry doesn't tell you which reading is true. It puts every witness on one page, shows what a blind committee did with the same language, and leaves the verdict where it belongs — with the reader.