A “missing” verse and a gateway to worship

If you want to get people in a tizzy, start talking about the alleged omissions in modern Bible translations. If you compare a Bible published in the King James Version with the NIV, NET, CSB, ESV, NASB, and nearly every other translation from the last 70 years,1 you’ll notice a handful of verses that do not appear within the main body of the text.2

I’m not a big conspiracy theory guy, especially where there is nothing nefarious at work. These verses, which appear in the footnotes of many t...