14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Judgment
• Obedience and Disobedience

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

• 1Cor 9:24 — Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• 1Cor 9:26 — I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
• 2Pet 1:10 — Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
• 2Tim 2:5 — And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
• Acts 24:25 — And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
• Col 1:13 — Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
• Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Eph 6:12 — For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
• Ezek 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth
• Gen 19:15 — And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
• Gen 32:24 — And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
• Heb 4:11 — Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
• Heb 4:11 — Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
• Heb 12:17 — For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
• Hos 10:12 — Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
• Isa 58:2 — Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in appr
• John 3:5 — Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
• John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• John 7:34 — Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
• Josh 7:3 — And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are bu
• Luke 11:9 — And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
• Luke 12:58 — When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
• Luke 17:34 — I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
• Luke 21:36 — Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Mark 8:34 — And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Matt 5:25 — Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into pris
• Matt 7:13 — Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
• Matt 7:13 — Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
• Matt 11:12 — And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
• Matt 18:3 — And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
• Phil 2:12 — Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Prov 1:24 — Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
• Prov 9:6 — Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Prov 14:12 — There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• Prov 21:25 — The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
• Ps 27:4 — One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
• Ps 63:8 — My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
• Rom 10:3 — For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
• Zeph 2:2 — Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you.