diff --git a/web/react/utils/markdown.jsx b/web/react/utils/markdown.jsx
index e8e5798bdf..1b699bc982 100644
--- a/web/react/utils/markdown.jsx
+++ b/web/react/utils/markdown.jsx
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ export class MattermostMarkdownRenderer extends marked.Renderer {
     }
 
     paragraph(text) {
-        text = TextFormatting.doFormatText(text, this.options);
+        let outText = TextFormatting.doFormatText(text, this.options);
 
         if (this.formattingOptions.singleline) {
-            return `<p class="markdown__paragraph-inline">${text}</p>`;
+            return `<p class="markdown__paragraph-inline">${outText}</p>`;
         }
 
-        return super.paragraph(text);
+        return super.paragraph(outText);
     }
 
     table(header, body) {