6:11 Some of you once lived this way.8 But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ9 and by the Spirit of our God.
tc The external evidence in support of the reading Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ (Iēsou Christou, “Jesus Christ”) is quite impressive: 𝔓11vid,46א B Cvid D* P 33 81 104 365 629 630 1739 1881 2464 al lat bo as well as several fathers, while the reading with merely Ἰησοῦ has significantly poorer support (A D2Ψ 𝔐 sa). Although the wording of the original could certainly have been expanded, it is also possible that Χριστοῦ as a nomen sacrum could have accidentally dropped out. Although the latter is not as likely under normal circumstances, in light of the early and widespread witnesses for the fuller expression, the original wording seems to have been Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.