Romans 16:24, the benediction that moves around

Romans 16:24: set in brackets as a disputed passage, wording kept.

Romans 16:25-27: set in brackets as a disputed passage, wording kept.

“This passage is not in the earliest copies of the text. The committee judged it a later addition and keeps it in brackets rather than removing it. The committee departed from the default because the omission is backed by more numerous, earlier and more varied witnesses, and because a stock benediction placed after a string of greetings is exactly the kind of sentence copyists supply. The one early witness for the presence keeps this from being certain, so a second reader would be reasonable.”

“The base text reads Ἡ χάρις … ὑμῶν; the committee adopted the omission on the evidence of the copies. The external evidence strongly favors absence, and the longer wording is plausibly explained as a later addition.”

“The base text reads Ἀμήν. The copies also carry 25 Τῷ δὲ δυναμένῳ ὑμᾶς στηρίξαι κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν μου καὶ τὸ κήρυγμα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν μυστηρίου χρόνοις αἰωνίοις σεσιγημένου, 26 φανερωθέντος δὲ νῦν διά τε γραφῶν προφητικῶν κατʼ ἐπιταγὴν τοῦ αἰωνίου θεοῦ εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη γνωρισθέντος, 27 μόνῳ σοφῷ θεῷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. [early greek manuscript tradition]; the committee kept the base text. The external evidence favors 25 Τῷ δὲ δυναμένῳ ὑμᾶς στηρίξαι κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν μου καὶ τὸ κήρυγμα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν μυστηρίου χρόνοις αἰωνίοις σεσιγημένου, 26 φανερωθέντος δὲ νῦν διά τε γραφῶν προφητικῶν κατʼ ἐπιταγὴν τοῦ αἰωνίου θεοῦ εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη γνωρισθέντος, 27 μόνῳ σοφῷ θεῷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν., but the internal evidence is not decisive enough to overturn the default wording with high confidence.”

“This passage is not in the earliest copies of the text. The committee judged it a later addition and keeps it in brackets rather than removing it. The committee departed from the default here because the block in question carries a manifest scribal colophon within it and because the omission is attested by the papyrus and the majuscules, the most independent early classes. The doxology itself may well be authentic elsewhere in the letter; the judgment is only that it did not originally stand at this point after the closing benediction. A second reader should check whether the early witnesses for presence are of one family, which would further reduce their weight.”

“Included from the Faithlife/SBLGNT apparatus at Romans 16:24 as the final doxology. Witnesses: WH, Treg, NA28.”

The committee's decision for Romans 16:24 was to set the passage in brackets while keeping its wording; it also bracketed Romans 16:25-27. Its note begins, “This passage is not in the earliest copies of the text.” The committee described its judgment as a later addition, while allowing that “a second reader would be reasonable.” The committee record also labels the following material “Textual supplement: Romans 16:25” and gives the pericope an audit verdict of clean.