18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Holy Spirit

• Full Deity of the Spirit · major
• Personhood of the Holy Spirit · major

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

• 1Chr 21:1 — And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
• 1Cor 12:10 — To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
• 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• 2Cor 10:6 — And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
• 2Kgs 1:10 — And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him
• 2Kgs 5:22 — And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver,
• Acts 5:2 — And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
• Acts 5:4 — Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Acts 5:4 — Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Acts 5:9 — Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
• Acts 5:9 — Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
• Deut 23:21 — When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
• Eccl 5:4 — When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
• 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 4:25 — Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• Eph 4:27 — Neither give place to the devil.
• Eph 6:11 — Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Ezek 38:10 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
• Isa 29:15 — Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
• Isa 32:6 — For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink
• Jas 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Jas 4:7 — Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Jer 23:24 — Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
• Job 22:13 — And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
• John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
• John 13:2 — And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;
• John 13:2 — And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;
• John 13:27 — And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
• John 13:27 — And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
• John 14:26 — But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
• Lev 19:11 — Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
• Luke 5:22 — But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
• Luke 6:45 — A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
• Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
• Luke 22:3 — Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
• Luke 22:3 — Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
• Mark 2:8 — And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
• Mark 4:15 — And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
• Matt 9:4 — And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
• Matt 24:48 — But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;