:TEXT: "and has loosed us from our sins by his blood" : p18 S A C 1 1611 2344 Maj(A) two lat syr(ph,h) : ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: BNOTES: "and has bathed us from our sins by his blood" : P 046 94 1006 1854 2053 Maj(K,B,C) most lat vg cop(north) : KJV ASVnCOMMENTS: There is only one letter's difference between the Greek words for "loosed" and "bathed," and the words may have been pronounced alike at one time. Copyists may have been influenced by the reference in Revelation 7:14 to Christians who "rinsed their robes . . . in the blood of the Lamb" in understanding the word as "bathed."