:TEXT: "·To him be the might forever. Amen." : p72 B most cop(north) : TEV RANK: CNOTES: "·To him be the might forever and ever. Amen." : S A K P Psi 0206vid 33 81 104 614 630 945 1241 1739 1881 2495 Byz Lect lat vg syr(p,h) one cop(north) cop(south) : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV : The words translated "forever" are literally "to the ages," while the words translated "forever and ever" are literally "to the ages of the ages." Since copyists had a tendency to expand doxologies, a majority of the UBS Textual Committee felt that the shorter reading was original in spite of the slender evidence for it, especially in light of 1 Peter 4:11.