10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Church
• Faith
• Love

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

• 1Cor 4:14 — I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
• 1Cor 4:15 — For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
• 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1John 2:12 — I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
• 1John 5:21 — Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
• 1Thess 2:8 — So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
• 1Tim 1:2 — Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 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?
• 3John 1:4 — I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
• 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 1:27 — 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 2:1 — For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
• Col 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• Col 4:12 — Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Col 4:12 — Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Eph 4:13 — Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
• Eph 4:24 — And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
• Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Isa 53:11 — He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
• Jas 1:18 — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Jer 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Luke 22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Num 11:11 — And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
• Phil 1:8 — For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 2:5 — Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
• Phil 2:17 — Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
• Phlm 1:10 — I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
• Phlm 1:10 — I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
• Phlm 1:19 — I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
• Prov 7:24 — Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
• Rev 12:1 — And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
• Rev 12:2 — And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
• Rom 8:29 — For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Rom 13:14 — But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• Titus 1:4 — To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.