28 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Grace
• Joy
• Wisdom

• Clarity of Scripture

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

• 1Cor 1:9 — God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1Cor 1:21 — For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
• 1Cor 1:26 — For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
• 1Cor 2:6 — Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
• 1Cor 2:10 — But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
• 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• 1Cor 12:18 — But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
• 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 2Cor 4:3 — But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
• 2Tim 1:9 — Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Acts 17:24 — God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
• Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
• Col 2:2 — That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of C
• Dan 2:23 — I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s ma
• Eph 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Eph 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Eph 1:11 — In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Gal 1:15 — But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
• Gen 14:19 — And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
• Isa 29:14 — Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
• Isa 29:18 — And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
• Isa 35:8 — And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err ther
• 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.
• Isa 54:13 — And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
• Isa 62:5 — For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
• Isa 66:1 — Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
• Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
• Job 28:23 — God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
• John 8:19 — Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
• John 10:15 — As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• John 11:41 — Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
• John 11:41 — Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
• John 17:6 — I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
• 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 4:25 — But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
• Luke 8:10 — And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
• Luke 12:32 — Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
• Luke 15:5 — And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
• Luke 15:9 — And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
• Mark 4:11 — And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: