16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Atonement
• Love
• Obedience and Disobedience

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

• 1Cor 13:4 — Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
• 1Cor 13:5 — Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
• 1John 2:6 — He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
• 1John 4:9 — In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
• 1John 4:9 — In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
• 1John 4:11 — Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
• 1John 4:16 — And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
• 1Pet 1:18 — Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• 1Pet 2:21 — For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
• 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 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1Thess 2:8 — So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
• 2Cor 4:12 — So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
• 2Cor 8:4 — Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
• 2Pet 1:7 — And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
• Acts 2:44 — And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
• Acts 20:24 — But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel
• Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Deut 15:7 — If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor bro
• Deut 15:11 — For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
• Eph 5:2 — And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Eph 5:2 — And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• Eph 6:20 — For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Gal 1:4 — Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
• Gal 4:15 — Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
• Gal 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• Gen 44:33 — Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
• Jas 2:16 — And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
• John 3:16 — For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
• John 10:11 — I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
• John 10:15 — As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• John 13:34 — A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• John 14:24 — He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
• John 15:12 — This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
• John 21:17 — He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; t
• Jude 1:21 — Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
• Lev 16:10 — But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
• Luke 10:31 — And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
• Luke 10:37 — And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.