11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Num 25:1 · echo
  "And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab."
  Numbers: Israel committed sexual immorality with Moab — warning example

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Josh 22:17 — Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
• Num 25:1 — And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
• Num 25:1 — And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
• Num 25:9 — And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
• Prov 23:28 — She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
• Ps 106:29 — Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
• Ps 106:29 — Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
• Rev 2:14 — But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u