18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• 1Cor 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1Thess 3:12 — And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• 1Thess 4:1 — Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• 2Cor 8:2 — How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
• 2Cor 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
• 2Pet 1:2 — Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
• 2Pet 3:18 — But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• 2Thess 1:3 — We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• Col 1:10 — That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 2:7 — Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• Col 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Heb 6:12 — That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
• John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• Mark 4:19 — And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
• Mark 4:20 — And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
• Matt 13:21 — Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
• Matt 25:18 — But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
• Phil 1:9 — And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Phil 2:5 — Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
• Phlm 1:6 — That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
• Phlm 1:6 — That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
• Titus 3:14 — And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
• Titus 3:14 — And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.