13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Obedience and Disobedience
• Sin
• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1John 4:17 — Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
• 1Pet 2:21 — For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
• 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1Pet 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1Pet 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1Pet 5:5 — Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• 2Cor 10:3 — For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• 2Thess 3:5 — And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
• Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
• Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Deut 27:10 — Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
• Eph 2:16 — And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
• Eph 6:13 — Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
• Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
• Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
• Gal 5:16 — This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Gal 5:24 — And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Heb 4:10 — For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
• Heb 4:10 — For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
• Heb 12:3 — For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
• Isa 1:16 — Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• Isa 11:5 — And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• Isa 50:7 — For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
• John 13:14 — If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
• Luke 19:28 — And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
• Mark 8:34 — And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Matt 5:29 — And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
• Matt 16:24 — Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Phil 2:5 — Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
• Phil 2:5 — Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
• Phil 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
• Ps 85:13 — Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
• Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Rom 6:4 — Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
• Rom 6:7 — For he that is dead is freed from sin.
• Rom 6:7 — For he that is dead is freed from sin.
• Rom 6:11 — Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 8:3 — For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: