17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Ps 34:12 · exact_quote
  "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?"
  Psalm 34: whoever desires to love life — extended ethical quote

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Love
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Righteousness
• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1Pet 2:22 — Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
• Deut 6:2 — That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
• Deut 32:47 — For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Deut 32:47 — For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Eccl 2:3 — I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under t
• Gen 43:31 — And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
• Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
• Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
• Jas 3:1 — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
• Jas 3:2 — For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
• Job 2:4 — And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
• Job 7:7 — O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
• Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
• Job 33:28 — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
• John 1:47 — Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
• John 12:25 — He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
• Mark 8:35 — For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
• Matt 13:16 — But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
• Matt 15:8 — This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
• Matt 19:17 — And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
• Prov 3:2 — For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
• Prov 3:18 — She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
• Prov 4:22 — For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
• Prov 8:35 — For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
• Prov 19:8 — He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
• Ps 25:13 — His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
• Ps 27:13 — I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Ps 34:12 — What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
• Ps 34:12 — What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
• Ps 49:19 — He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
• Ps 106:5 — That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
• Ps 119:101 — I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
• Rev 14:5 — And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
• Rev 14:5 — And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
• Rom 12:9 — Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• Titus 3:2 — To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.