15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Faith
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1Cor 3:5 — Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
• 1Cor 3:5 — Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
• 1Cor 4:1 — Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
• 1Cor 4:11 — Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
• 1Cor 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca
• 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 1Cor 15:30 — And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
• 1Cor 15:31 — I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
• 1Pet 1:6 — Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
• 1Thess 5:12 — And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
• 2Cor 1:5 — For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
• 2Cor 1:9 — But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
• 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 2Cor 4:8 — We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
• 2Cor 4:17 — For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
• 2Cor 6:4 — But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• 2Cor 6:5 — In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
• 2Cor 6:9 — As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
• 2Cor 7:5 — For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
• 2Cor 10:7 — Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
• 2Cor 11:24 — Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
• 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 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.
• 2Tim 1:8 — Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• 2Tim 2:9 — Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
• 2Tim 3:11 — Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
• Acts 5:18 — And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
• Acts 9:16 — For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
• Acts 9:16 — For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
• Acts 14:19 — And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
• Acts 15:26 — Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 16:22 — And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
• Acts 20:19 — Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
• Acts 21:13 — Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 21:31 — And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
• Col 1:7 — As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
• Col 1:24 — Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• Col 1:24 — Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.