6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Atonement
• Faith
• Love

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

• 1Cor 1:13 — Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
• 1Cor 16:22 — If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• 1Cor 16:22 — If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• 1John 4:19 — We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1Pet 1:8 — Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• 1Pet 1:8 — Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• 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;
• 1Tim 2:6 — Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• 1Tim 5:6 — But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
• 1Tim 5:6 — But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
• 2Cor 3:9 — For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
• 2Cor 4:5 — For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
• 2Cor 8:5 — And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
• 2Cor 8:8 — I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
• 2Sam 23:16 — And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not d
• Acts 16:15 — And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
• Acts 18:5 — And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
• Acts 20:22 — And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
• Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
• Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Deut 6:5 — And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Eph 3:17 — That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Eph 3:18 — May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
• Eph 3:19 — And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
• Eph 4:20 — But ye have not so learned Christ;
• 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.
• Exod 21:5 — And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
• Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
• Gal 5:6 — For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Gal 6:14 — But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Gen 29:20 — And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
• Heb 2:9 — But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
• Heb 6:10 — For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• Hos 11:4 — I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
• John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
• John 5:23 — That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
• John 11:50 — Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
• John 14:15 — If ye love me, keep my commandments.
• 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.