16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Church
• Forgiveness
• Holiness

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

• 1Pet 1:15 — But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
• 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 2Cor 1:6 — And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consol
• 2Cor 4:17 — For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
• 2Pet 1:4 — Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
• 2Pet 1:4 — Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
• 2Sam 16:12 — It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
• Col 1:22 — In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
• Dan 12:10 — Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
• Deut 8:16 — Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
• Eccl 7:3 — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
• Eph 4:24 — And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
• Eph 5:26 — That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
• Ezek 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Gen 42:17 — And he put them all together into ward three days.
• Heb 3:14 — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• Heb 12:11 — Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
• Heb 12:14 — Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• Isa 38:16 — O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
• Isa 48:10 — Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
• John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• Lev 11:44 — For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the ear
• Lev 19:2 — Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
• Mal 3:3 — And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
• Prov 20:30 — The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
• Prov 22:15 — Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
• Prov 27:6 — Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
• Prov 29:15 — The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
• Ps 17:15 — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
• Ps 97:12 — Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
• Ps 118:18 — The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
• Ps 119:71 — It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
• Ps 119:75 — I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• Ps 149:4 — For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
• Rom 5:3 — And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• Ruth 1:3 — And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
• Titus 2:14 — Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.