19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Obedience and Disobedience

• The Great Banquet

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

• 1John 2:15 — Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1Tim 6:9 — But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• 2Tim 4:4 — And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
• 2Tim 4:10 — For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
• Acts 13:45 — But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• Acts 17:32 — And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
• Acts 18:5 — And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
• Gen 25:34 — Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
• Heb 12:16 — Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• Isa 28:12 — To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
• Isa 29:11 — And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
• Jer 5:4 — Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
• Jer 6:10 — To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in
• John 1:11 — He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
• John 5:40 — And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
• Luke 8:14 — And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
• Luke 9:61 — And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
• Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
• Luke 18:24 — And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
• Luke 20:4 — The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
• 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.
• Mark 4:19 — And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
• Matt 22:5 — But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
• Matt 24:38 — For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
• Matt 24:38 — For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
• Prov 1:30 — They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.