18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

5 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.
• 2Pet 2:2 — And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
• Acts 13:26 — Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
• Acts 16:30 — And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
• Acts 18:26 — And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
• Acts 19:13 — Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
• Acts 19:15 — And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
• Acts 22:4 — And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
• Acts 27:23 — For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
• Dan 3:26 — Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadr
• Dan 3:26 — Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadr
• Dan 3:28 — Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, a
• Dan 4:2 — I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
• Dan 5:18 — O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
• Dan 5:21 — And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven
• Dan 6:16 — Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
• Dan 6:20 — And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able t
• Gen 14:18 — And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
• Gen 14:18 — And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
• Gen 14:19 — And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
• Heb 7:1 — For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
• Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
• Jas 2:19 — Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
• John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• Jonah 1:9 — And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
• Luke 1:32 — He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
• Luke 1:76 — And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
• Luke 1:77 — To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
• Luke 1:79 — To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• Luke 4:34 — Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
• Luke 4:41 — And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
• Luke 4:41 — And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
• Luke 20:21 — And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
• Mal 2:7 — For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
• Mal 3:18 — Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
• Mark 1:25 — And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
• Mark 3:11 — And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
• Mark 5:6 — But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
• Mark 5:7 — And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
• Mark 5:7 — And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.