13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Holiness
• Righteousness
• Sin
• Spiritual Warfare

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

• 1Cor 9:27 — But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• 1Cor 9:27 — But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• 1Pet 1:2 — Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• 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 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 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 2Cor 10:3 — For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• 2Tim 1:14 — That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• 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:
• Eph 4:22 — That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Eph 4:30 — And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• Ezek 18:21 — But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Ezek 18:31 — Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Gal 4:29 — But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
• Gal 5:17 — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• 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.
• Gal 5:24 — And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Gal 5:24 — And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Isa 8:10 — Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
• John 3:6 — That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• John 11:26 — And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
• John 14:17 — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
• Luke 9:23 — And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
• Mark 9:43 — And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
• Matt 5:29 — And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
• Mic 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Rom 6:6 — Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• Rom 6:12 — Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• 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.