12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Humility
• Suffering and Perseverance
• Wisdom

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

• 1Cor 2:3 — And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
• 1Cor 2:3 — And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
• 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• 1Pet 4:14 — If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• 2Cor 1:5 — For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
• 2Cor 4:12 — So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
• 2Cor 5:13 — For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
• 2Cor 11:7 — Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
• 2Cor 11:19 — For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
• 2Cor 11:19 — For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
• 2Cor 12:10 — Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• 2Cor 13:3 — Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
• 2Cor 13:9 — For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
• 2Cor 13:9 — For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
• 2Kgs 9:11 — Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
• Acts 17:18 — Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he pre
• Acts 17:18 — Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he pre
• 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 26:24 — And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• Acts 26:24 — And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• Heb 13:13 — Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Hos 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
• Isa 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Jer 8:8 — How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
• Luke 6:22 — Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• Luke 6:22 — Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• Luke 18:9 — And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
• Matt 5:11 — Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
• Prov 11:12 — He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
• Prov 13:7 — There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
• Rom 2:19 — And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
• Rom 12:16 — Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
• Rom 15:1 — We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Song 1:5 — I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.