1st Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 38 Holy Bible
But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.
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But if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 38. - Let him be ignorant. The formula seems to fall under the idiom which refuses to say anything more about a subject ("If I perish, I perish;" "What I have written, I have written;" "He that is filthy, let him be filthy still," etc.). The readings vary considerably ("He is ignored;" "He has been ignored;" "He shall be ignored;" "Let him be ignored"). These other readings would be a statement of retribution in kind - of God "sprinkling penal blindnesses on forbidden lusts." But the reading of our translation is on the whole the best supported, and means that to invincible bigotry and ignorant obstinacy St. Paul will have no more to say (Matthew 15:14; 1 Timothy 6:3-5).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(38) But if any man be ignorant.--There are here two readings in the Greek, for each of which there is strong evidence. The passage may run, either, as in the English, if any man does not know this, let him not know it: then the words would mean that a person who could not recognise such an evident and simple truth must be of a perverse mind--his opposition would give the Apostle no further concern. The other reading is, if any man knows not this, he is himself not known: this would signify that any man who knows not this truth is not known of God (as in 1Corinthians 8:2-3; 1Corinthians 13:12).
