14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1Cor 3:8 — Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
• 1Cor 4:10 — We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
• 1Cor 4:12 — And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
• 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 2:23 — Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• 1Pet 3:16 — Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
• 1Pet 4:14 — If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• 1Pet 4:14 — If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• 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 4:11 — For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
• 2Cor 12:9 — And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon m
• 2Kgs 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
• 2Sam 16:12 — It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
• 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.
• 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:
• Heb 10:34 — For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
• Heb 13:13 — Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Isa 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
• Isa 51:7 — Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
• Isa 66:5 — Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they s
• Jas 5:10 — Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
• Jer 37:14 — Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
• John 9:28 — Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.
• John 15:18 — If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• John 15:21 — But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• Luke 6:22 — Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• Luke 7:33 — For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
• Luke 9:24 — For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
• Luke 21:12 — But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
• Luke 21:17 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
• Luke 21:17 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
• Mark 4:17 — And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
• Mark 8:35 — For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
• Mark 10:30 — But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
• Mark 13:9 — But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against t
• Mark 13:13 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Mark 13:13 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Matt 10:18 — And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
• Matt 10:22 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.