22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Faith
• Love

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.
• 1Cor 16:14 — Let all your things be done with charity.
• 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 2:2 — As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• 1Pet 4:8 — And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
• 1Thess 1:2 — We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
• 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 3:9 — For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 1Thess 4:9 — But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
• 1Thess 4:10 — And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
• 1Tim 2:1 — I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
• 2Cor 8:7 — Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
• 2Cor 10:15 — Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
• 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• 2Pet 1:8 — For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 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.
• 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 2:13 — But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the t
• 2Thess 2:13 — But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the t
• 3John 1:2 — Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
• Col 1:4 — Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
• Col 2:19 — And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
• Eph 1:15 — Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
• Eph 1:16 — Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
• Eph 4:16 — From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the
• Eph 5:20 — Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Heb 11:25 — Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
• Heb 13:1 — Let brotherly love continue.
• Isa 40:29 — He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
• John 13:34 — A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• 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.
• John 15:12 — This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
• Luke 17:5 — And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
• Luke 17:5 — And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
• Mal 4:2 — But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Mark 4:27 — And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.