What is a fabrication?
A verse, story, or detail falsely added or altered in religious texts, not found in the original/earliest manuscripts, often to promote specific beliefs or doctrines.
Verses not included in modern day Bible Versions NIV/ESV etc.
Matthew 17:21 "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." Omitted
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Matthew 18:11 "For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost." Omitted
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Matthew 23:14 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses..." Omitted
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Mark 7:16 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" Omitted
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Mark 9:44 "Where 'Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'" Omitted
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Mark 9:46 "Where 'Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'" Omitted
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Mark 11:26 "But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses." Omitted
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Mark 15:28 "So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, 'And He was numbered with the transgressors.'" Omitted
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Luke 17:36 "Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left." Omitted
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John 5:4 "For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water..." Omitted
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Acts 8:37 "Then Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you may.'..." Omitted
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Acts 15:34 "However, it seemed good to Silas to remain there." Omitted
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Acts 24:7 "But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands." Omitted
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Acts 28:29 "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed and had a great dispute among themselves." Omitted
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Romans 16:24 "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." Omitted
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Longer Passages Included in NKJV but removed in modern versions.
Mark 16:9–20
Included Bracketed or footnoted
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John 7:53–8:11 (Story of the Adulterous Woman)
Included Bracketed or footnoted
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1 John 5:7–8 (Comma Johanneum)
Included Omitted or footnoted
These verses appear in the New King James Version (NKJV) but are missing in modern, more accurate translations like the NIV and ESV because they are not found in the earliest or most reliable Greek manuscripts. Scholars agree: they are fabrications, insertions by later scribes and not part of what the original biblical authors wrote.