THE CASE OF THE "MISSING VERSE"
When you read 1 John 5:7–8 in almost all translations today, it is commonly rendered as: “For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.” (ESV). But when you read the same passage in the KJV , you’ll notice it is much longer: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.” The longer translation of verse 7 in the KJV (as well as in the NKJV and a few others) is called the “Comma Johanneum,” which literally means “short clause pertaining to John.” The Comma Johanneum has been removed in almost all of the modern translations we have today. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗬? Some argue that its removal is essentially taking away from the Word of God, which means that modern translations are unreliable. Some even suggest that the omission of this lon...