First, the entire section is found at different locations among the earliest extant manuscripts of the letter. Some have it here, and others have it after 14:40—that is, at the end of the chapter. The best explanation for this discrepancy is that it was not originally part of the letter; that a copyist wrote it in the margin as his own version of 1 Timothy 14:33b–36, and later copyists inserted it from the margin into the text at two different places.
