18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Idolatry
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Sin

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

• 1Cor 6:11 — And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• 1Cor 12:2 — Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
• 1Cor 12:2 — Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
• 1Kgs 21:26 — And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• 1Pet 1:18 — Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• 1Thess 4:5 — Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
• 1Thess 4:5 — Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
• 2Chr 15:8 — And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had t
• 2Cor 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which
• Acts 14:16 — Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
• Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Acts 17:30 — And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Acts 17:30 — And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Col 3:7 — In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
• Deut 12:30 — Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their god
• Deut 12:30 — Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their god
• Eccl 7:2 — It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
• Eccl 10:19 — A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
• Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Eph 4:19 — Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 4:22 — That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
• Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• Ezek 44:6 — And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
• Ezek 44:6 — And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
• Ezek 45:9 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 45:9 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
• Gal 4:8 — Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Gal 5:21 — Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:21 — Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Hos 3:1 — Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of
• Hos 7:5 — In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
• Hos 14:8 — Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
• Isa 5:11 — Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!