13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Obedience and Disobedience
• Truth

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

• 1Pet 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• 1Pet 5:2 — Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
• 1Sam 12:3 — Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have
• 1Thess 2:3 — For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
• 1Thess 2:10 — Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
• 2Cor 4:5 — For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
• 2Cor 7:2 — Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
• 2Cor 12:14 — Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the chil
• 2Cor 12:17 — Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
• 2Pet 2:3 — And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• 2Pet 2:3 — And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• 2Pet 2:14 — Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• Acts 20:33 — I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
• Acts 20:33 — I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
• Gal 1:20 — Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
• Gen 31:50 — If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
• Job 32:22 — For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
• Neh 5:16 — Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
• Phil 4:17 — Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
• Prov 21:26 — He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
• Prov 29:5 — A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
• Ps 12:2 — They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
• Rev 18:12 — The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels
• Rom 1:9 — For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
• Rom 9:1 — I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
• Titus 1:7 — For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;