16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Obedience and Disobedience
• Sin

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

• 1Cor 15:56 — The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
• 1Cor 15:56 — The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
• 1John 3:4 — Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
• 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:
• Col 3:7 — In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
• Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Eph 2:11 — Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
• Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
• Gal 4:21 — Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
• Gal 5:16 — This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Gal 5:24 — And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Jas 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Jas 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• John 3:6 — That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Matt 6:21 — For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
• Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Rom 3:20 — Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Rom 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• 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 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 6:19 — I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servan
• Rom 6:21 — What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Rom 6:21 — What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Rom 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 7:7 — What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Rom 7:18 — For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• Rom 7:23 — But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
• Rom 7:23 — But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
• Rom 8:3 — For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• Rom 8:6 — For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
• Rom 8:8 — So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Rom 8:8 — So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Rom 8:13 — For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.