NASB Bible is confusing me!?

Question

HELP! I was told that there was a verse ommitted from the NASB Bible-I don't own one, so I had to look online-the verse, Revelation 18:11 was in brackets-and no other verses were-does this mean it is ommitted from the NASB? If you own a NASB Bible could you check for me please? THANKS!!!

oops!!!!! it was supposed to be Matthew 18:11-sorry-think you could check again??

Answer 1

I own a lot of Bibles and I looked in my NASB and it has that verse. It reads "And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more". It doesn't have any brackets around it or any notes saying something like "not all translations have this verse".

Answer 2

The only verse(s) that were probably said to be "missing" by whoever told you that was more than likely just comparing the New American Standard Version to the King James Version. There has been a lot of confusion made over this whole issue because of uneducated, die-hard KJV-ONLY fanatics. They have even gone as far as to say that anyone reading anything other than the KJV is reading the same "Bible" that cults use and those Bibles are corrupt. I think some of them have forgottent that the largest cult in the world uses the KJV of the Bible and are very strict about it being the best Bible (this is the LDS Church, better known as Mormons). However, here are some of the verses your friend may have been referring to: Matthew 17:21; Matthew 18:11; Matthew 23:14; Mark 7:16; Mark 9:44, 46; Mark 11:26; Mark 15:28; Mark 16:9-20; Luke 9:55-56; Luke 17:36; Luke 23:17; John 5:4; Acts 8:37; Acts 9:5-6; Acts 24:6-8; Acts 28:29; 1 John 5:7-8 (even though this verse has NEVER been found in ANY early manuscripts); Roman 16:24; . By the way, the brackets you're talking about are usually used to show that whatever is inside them was not a part of the original manuscript.

Answer 3

edit (after question was revised)

"For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost." Matthew 18:11.

This verse appears in the NASB in brackets (which simply means that it does not appear in all versions of the Bible.) It may also appear in some NASB Bibles as simply a footnote. The verse is not included in the God's Word translation, the Bible in Basic English, or the Weymouth New Testament.

The simple reason is because this verse is not found in the earliest of manuscript. Nonetheless, if you try searching on-line, you will find nothing but angry website about how Satan took this verse from the Bible in order to trick all mankind out of Salvation and into the fiery depths of Hell.

Christians can be soooooo delusional......