1 Timothy 5:16

1 Timothy 5:16 pisth, {B}

Instead of pisth, (a A C F G^gr P 33 81 1739 1881 it^mon vg cop^{sa, bo} eth^pp al) the Textus Receptus reads pisto.j h' pisth, with D K L Y most minuscules it^{ar, b, d, o} syr^{p, h} al. While it is possible that pisto.j h; was omitted accidentally through an oversight in copying, a majority of the Committee, observing that the shorter reading is somewhat better attested than the longer reading, regarded the latter as a natural expansion made by copyists who, in light of ver. 1 Timothy 5:4, felt that a restriction of the principle of this verse to Christian women was unfair. The reading pisto,j is confined to versions and may be merely translational in origin.