1 Corinthians 14:38
But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
KJV
εἰ δέ τις ἀγνοεῖ, ἀγνοεῖται.
Greek NT
Si quis autem ignorat, ignorabitur.
Vulgate
But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
ASV
But if any man know not, he shall not be known.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
4 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀγνοέω
agnoeo
verb · 22×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ἀγνοεῖται | WH/NIV: ἀγνοεῖται | Treg/RP: ἀγνοείτω
- ἀγνοεῖται — SBLGNT
- ἀγνοεῖται — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀγνοείτω — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:1 — Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
- 1Tim 6:3 — If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
- 2Tim 4:3 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
- Hos 4:17 — Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
- Matt 7:6 — Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- Matt 15:14 — Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- Rev 22:11 — He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.