1 Korintus 7:14

7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. ¹  Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

1 Korintus 7:39

7:39 A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, ²  she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).

1 Korintus 10:28

10:28 But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience ³  –

1 Korintus 14:23

14:23 So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

1 Korintus 15:32

15:32 If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, ⁴  what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. ⁵ 

[7:14]  ¹ tc Grk “the brother.” Later witnesses (א² D² Ï) have ἀνδρί (andri, “husband”) here, apparently in conscious emulation of the earlier mention of ἀνήρ (ajnhr) in the verse. However, the earliest and best witnesses (Ì⁴⁶ א* A B C D* F G P Ψ 33 1739 al co) are decisively in favor of ἀδελφῷ (adelfw, “brother”), a word that because of the close association with “wife” here may have seemed inappropriate to many scribes. It is also for reasons of English style that “her husband” is used in the translation.

[7:39]  ² tn The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for the death of a believer.

[10:28]  ³ tc The Byzantine texttype and a few other witnesses (H^c Ψ Ï) essentially duplicate v. 26 at the end of this verse (with γάρ [gar, “for”] in second instead of third position), which itself is a quotation from Ps 24:1 (23:1 LXX). Not only is there a vast number of early, important, and diverse witnesses that lack this extra material (א A B C* D F G H* P 33 81 365 630 1175 1739 1881 2464 latt co), but the quotation seems out of place at this point in the discourse for Paul is here discussing reasons not to partake of food that has been sacrificed to idols. Perhaps scribes felt that since food is from the Lord, to eat meat sacrificed to idols contradicts that belief. Either way, the better witnesses lack the clause which, had it been authentic to v. 28, would have not occasioned such a widespread excision. The evidence is thus compelling for the shorter reading.

[15:32]  ⁴ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[15:32]  ⁵ sn An allusion to Isa 22:13; 56:12.