17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Eternal Life
• Grace

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

• 1Cor 9:19 — For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
• 1Cor 9:22 — To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
• 1Cor 9:23 — And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
• 1John 2:19 — They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
• 1Pet 1:2 — Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• 1Pet 2:10 — Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• 1Pet 5:10 — But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• 1Pet 5:10 — But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• 1Thess 5:9 — For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1Thess 5:9 — For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1Tim 1:13 — Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 1Tim 4:16 — Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
• 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 4:5 — For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
• 2Cor 4:15 — For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
• 2Cor 4:15 — For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
• 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 12:15 — And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
• 2Tim 2:3 — Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• 2Tim 2:3 — Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• 2Tim 4:5 — But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
• 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 1:27 — To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Col 3:12 — Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• Eph 1:4 — According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
• Eph 3:13 — Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
• Heb 2:10 — For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Heb 5:9 — And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
• Heb 9:15 — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive th
• John 11:15 — And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
• John 11:52 — And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
• John 17:9 — I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
• John 17:19 — And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
• John 17:24 — Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• Luke 19:17 — And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
• Matt 24:22 — And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
• Phil 1:30 — Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
• Phil 2:12 — Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.