10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Ps 4:4 · adapted
  "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah."
  Psalm 4: be angry and do not sin — Paul adapts for Christian conduct

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

• Obedience and Disobedience
• Peace
• Sin

13 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:
• 1Sam 25:21 — Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
• 2Cor 7:11 — For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement des
• Col 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Deut 24:15 — At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
• Eccl 7:9 — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Eccl 7:9 — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Exod 11:8 — And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Phara
• Exod 32:21 — And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
• Gen 27:41 — And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
• Gen 30:2 — And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
• Gen 31:36 — And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
• Jas 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Jas 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Jas 1:20 — For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• Mark 3:5 — And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restor
• Mark 6:19 — Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
• Mark 10:14 — But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
• Mark 10:14 — But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
• Matt 5:22 — But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but wh
• Matt 5:22 — But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but wh
• Matt 18:22 — Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
• Neh 5:6 — And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
• Neh 5:6 — And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
• Num 20:10 — And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
• Num 20:24 — Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
• Num 25:7 — And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
• Prov 14:29 — He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Prov 19:11 — The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
• Prov 25:23 — The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
• Ps 4:4 — Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 4:4 — Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 37:8 — Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
• Ps 37:8 — Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
• Ps 106:30 — Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
• Rom 12:19 — Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.