12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Love
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Truth

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

• 1Cor 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1Cor 13:4 — Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
• 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1John 4:21 — And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
• 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 3:8 — Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• 1Thess 1:3 — Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• 1Thess 1:3 — Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• 2Cor 6:6 — By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
• 2Cor 6:13 — Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
• 2John 1:1 — The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
• 2John 1:1 — The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
• 2Thess 2:17 — Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
• 3John 1:1 — The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
• Col 3:17 — And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
• Eph 4:1 — I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• Ezek 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth
• 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.
• Gal 6:1 — Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
• Heb 10:24 — And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
• Isa 32:17 — And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
• Jas 2:15 — If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
• Jas 3:17 — But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Job 31:19 — If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
• John 14:21 — He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• John 19:27 — Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
• Luke 7:47 — Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
• Luke 10:27 — And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
• Matt 25:41 — Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Phil 4:8 — Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
• Rom 12:9 — Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• Rom 12:9 — Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.