11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

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

• 1Cor 4:8 — Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
• 1Cor 7:30 — And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
• Amos 8:10 — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an onl
• Eccl 7:3 — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
• Eccl 7:6 — For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
• Isa 65:13 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be a
• Jas 4:9 — Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
• Jas 4:9 — Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
• Job 20:5 — That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
• John 6:35 — And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
• 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 8:53 — And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
• Luke 16:14 — And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
• Matt 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
• Matt 5:6 — Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
• Prov 14:13 — Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
• Rev 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• 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.