12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Humility
• Repentance
• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1Pet 1:6 — Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
• 2Chr 7:14 — If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
• 2Cor 7:10 — For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
• Eccl 2:2 — I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
• Eccl 3:4 — A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• Eccl 7:2 — It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
• Ezek 7:16 — But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
• Ezek 16:63 — That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
• Isa 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Jas 5:1 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Jer 31:9 — They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel,
• Jer 31:13 — Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
• Jer 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my Go
• Job 30:31 — My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
• Judg 2:4 — And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
• Lam 5:15 — The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
• Lev 23:27 — Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LO
• Luke 6:21 — Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
• Luke 6:25 — Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
• Luke 6:25 — Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
• Luke 16:25 — But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
• Mal 3:14 — Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
• Matt 5:3 — Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Matt 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
• Prov 14:13 — Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
• Prov 14:13 — Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
• Ps 119:67 — Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
• Ps 119:71 — It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
• Ps 126:5 — They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
• Rev 18:7 — How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
• Zech 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for h