14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Grace
• Love
• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1Cor 4:8 — Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
• 1Cor 16:24 — My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
• 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.
• 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 1:6 — And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consol
• 2Cor 1:6 — And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consol
• 2Cor 1:12 — For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and mor
• 2Cor 1:14 — As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 2Cor 2:3 — And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
• 2Cor 4:12 — So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
• 2Cor 4:16 — For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• 2Cor 6:6 — By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
• 2Cor 6:11 — O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
• 2Cor 6:12 — Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
• 2Cor 11:11 — Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
• 2Cor 12:9 — And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon m
• 2Cor 12:9 — And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon m
• 2Cor 12:14 — Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the chil
• 2Tim 2:10 — Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• 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:
• Deut 22:4 — Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
• Exod 18:18 — Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
• 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.
• Heb 13:17 — Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
• Isa 49:4 — Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
• John 10:10 — The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
• Mark 10:21 — Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up th
• Phil 2:17 — Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
• Phil 2:17 — Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
• Ps 109:4 — For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.