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Rom 1:16 — Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον / Ἰουδαίῳ τε (πρῶτον omitted)

Rom 1:16 · reading in

οὐ γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ χριστοῦ δύναμις γὰρ θεοῦ ἐστιν εἰς σωτηρίαν παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι

BSB: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.”

TR · Scrivener 1894: F. H. A. Scrivener, The New Testament in the Original Greek according to the Text followed in the Authorised Version (1894); public domain. Accents: "STEP Bible" (https://www.STEPBible.org). Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Accents rebuilt by AISBT from STEP Bible TAGNT (data). · BSB (public domain)

Printed reading

Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι

Ioudaiō te prōton kai Hellēni

to the Jew first and also to the Greek

ℵ · A · C · D · E · K · L · P · 𝔐 · it^d · it^e · vg · syrsch · syr^p · cop · arm · aeth · Origen · Eusebius · Didymus · Chrysostom

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Alternative 1

Ἰουδαίῳ τε καὶ Ἕλληνι

Ioudaiō te kai Hellēni

to Jew and Greek alike

B · G · it^g · Tertullian (Marc. 5.13)

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι
Confidence: high (team scale)
Significance: meaning
Byz / TR: Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον καὶ Ἕλληνι — open RP2018

Print πρῶτον with high confidence. It has early and broad support, and all editions agree. B and G are the main witnesses against it.

Evidence

7 sources

Editions (checked 2026-10-28): SBLGNT, RP2018, TR (local files); WH/Treg/NA28 from the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 by reference only. Sigla: as in STYLE_GUIDE §2.3. Minuscules are Gregory–Aland numbers, with Tischendorf's Pauline number once in parentheses ("Tisch."); * = first hand, superscript ᶜ (stored as c, e.g. Dc) = a later corrector; full key in src.tischendorf-8. Tischendorf names mainly dissenting witnesses, so some majuscules on the other side are inferred from his silence.

All print πρῶτον. Lachmann bracketed it (as Tischendorf reports).

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 366): πρῶτον: ℵ A C D E K L P and apparently all others, the Latin d e vg, both Syriac versions, the Coptic, Armenian and Ethiopic, Origen (Rufinus: the Jews are rightly placed "even before the Greeks"), Eusebius, Didymus, Chrysostom. Omitted: B G g, and Tertullian, Marc. 5.13, which cites Marcion's text. Tischendorf's "cop" is the Bohairic; modern apparatuses (by reference, not checked) add the Sahidic to the omission.

Internal: πρῶτον is Pauline (2:9–10, the same phrase twice). It may have been dropped because it seemed to qualify the equality of Jew and Greek (3:22; 10:12). Whether the omission in Tertullian's citation reflects Marcion's editing is unclear.

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Rom 1:16 — Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον / Ἰουδαίῳ τε (πρῶτον omitted)

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