17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Obedience and Disobedience
• Righteousness
• Sin

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

• 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• 1Cor 6:15 — Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
• 1Cor 6:20 — For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
• 1John 1:9 — If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• 2Chr 30:8 — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness o
• 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• 2Cor 8:5 — And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
• 2Cor 8:5 — And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
• 2Cor 10:4 — (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
• 2Cor 10:4 — (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
• 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
• Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
• Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
• Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Deut 13:4 — Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
• Deut 25:16 — For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
• Deut 26:17 — Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
• Eph 2:5 — Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Ezek 18:4 — Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
• Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
• Gal 6:8 — For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
• Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jas 3:5 — Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
• Jer 50:20 — In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
• John 5:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
• Lev 14:14 — And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
• Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:32 — It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
• Phil 1:20 — According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or
• Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Rom 1:18 — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
• Rom 2:8 — But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,