13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Faith
• Suffering and Perseverance
• Word of God

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

• 1Pet 2:12 — Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• 1Pet 4:15 — But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
• 1Pet 4:15 — But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
• 2Cor 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• 2Thess 3:1 — Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
• 2Thess 3:1 — Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
• 2Tim 1:8 — Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• 2Tim 1:8 — Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• 2Tim 1:12 — For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against th
• 2Tim 1:12 — For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against th
• 2Tim 4:17 — Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Acts 4:4 — Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
• Acts 9:16 — For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
• Acts 9:16 — For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
• Acts 16:23 — And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
• Acts 21:33 — Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
• Acts 28:20 — For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
• Acts 28:31 — Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
• Acts 28:31 — Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
• 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 4:3 — Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
• Col 4:3 — Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
• Col 4:18 — The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
• Eph 3:1 — For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
• Eph 6:19 — And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
• Eph 6:20 — For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Jer 33:1 — Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
• Phil 1:7 — Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
• Phil 1:7 — Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
• Phil 1:12 — But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
• Phil 1:13 — So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
• Prov 27:17 — Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.