13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Chosen People
• Holiness
• Truth

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

• 1Chr 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
• 1Chr 29:17 — I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy t
• 1Cor 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1Pet 2:22 — Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
• 1Pet 3:10 — For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
• 1Sam 12:24 — Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
• 2Tim 1:5 — When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
• Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• Eph 5:9 — (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
• Gal 6:16 — And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
• Hos 14:8 — Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
• Isa 38:3 — And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
• Jas 3:17 — But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Job 1:8 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
• John 3:21 — But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
• John 5:42 — But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
• John 6:55 — For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
• John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
• John 8:39 — They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
• Matt 15:8 — This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
• Phil 1:10 — That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• Ps 17:1 — Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
• Ps 32:2 — Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
• Ps 32:2 — Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
• Ps 73:1 — Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
• Ps 73:1 — Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
• Ps 119:1 — Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
• Ps 119:80 — Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
• Ps 125:4 — Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
• Rev 14:5 — And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
• Rev 14:5 — And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
• Rom 2:28 — For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
• Rom 9:4 — Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
• Rom 9:6 — Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
• Rom 9:6 — Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
• Zeph 3:13 — The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.