^1:9But³⁴ concerning the one who lacks such things³⁵—he is blind. That is to say, he is³⁶ nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

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Footnotes

34 Grk “for.” The connection, though causal, is also adversative.
35 Grk “to the one for whom these things are not present.”
36 The words “that is to say, he is” are not in Greek. The word order is unusual. One might expect the author to have said “he is nearsighted and blind” (as the has so construed it), but this is not the word order in Greek. Perhaps the author begins with a strong statement followed by a clarification, i.e., that being nearsighted in regard to these virtues is as good as being blind.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

NLTNew Living Translation

But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his former sins.

KJV 1900King James Version

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

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