11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Judgment
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Sin
• Truth

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

• 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• 1Pet 4:17 — For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• 1Sam 12:15 — But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
• 1Tim 6:3 — If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
• 2Pet 2:13 — And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast wi
• 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• 2Thess 2:10 — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• 2Thess 2:12 — That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• Deut 11:28 — And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
• Deut 28:15 — But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shal
• Ezek 22:31 — Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 24:13 — In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
• Gal 1:10 — For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
• Gal 3:1 — O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
• Gal 5:7 — Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
• Gal 5:21 — Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Heb 5:9 — And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
• Isa 17:11 — In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
• Jas 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• Jer 9:25 — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
• Job 5:2 — For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
• Job 36:12 — But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
• John 3:18 — He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
• John 3:19 — And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• Matt 13:19 — When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
• Matt 13:41 — The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
• Num 5:31 — Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
• Prov 10:29 — The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
• Prov 11:19 — As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
• Prov 11:23 — The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
• Prov 13:10 — Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
• Prov 16:5 — Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
• Ps 9:17 — The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
• Ps 32:10 — Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
• Rev 16:19 — And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wra
• Rom 6:12 — Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
• Rom 10:16 — But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?