1 Timothy 2:7

For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle – I am telling the truth; ¹  I am not lying – and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Ps 111:7; Ec 1:1,2,12; Ec 7:27; Ec 12:8-10; Joh 7:35; Ac 9:15; Ac 14:27; Ac 22:21; Ac 26:17,18,20; Ro 1:9; Ro 9:1; Ro 10:14; Ro 11:13; Ro 15:16; 2Co 11:31; Ga 1:16; Ga 1:20; Ga 2:9; Ga 2:16; Ga 3:9; Eph 3:7,8; 1Ti 1:11,12; 2Ti 1:11; 2Pe 2:5

¹ tc Most mss (א* D² H 33^vid Ï) have ἐν Χριστῷ (en Cristw) after λέγω (legw) to read “I am telling the truth in Christ,” but this is probably an assimilation to Rom 9:1. Further, the witnesses that lack this phrase are early, important, and well distributed (א² A D* F G P Ψ 6 81 1175 1739 1881 al sy co). It is difficult to explain the shorter reading if it is not original.