11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

3 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:
• 2Kgs 13:14 — Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the ho
• 2Sam 13:39 — And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
• 2Tim 4:20 — Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
• Eph 3:13 — Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
• Isa 61:3 — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteou
• Matt 11:28 — Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• Matt 26:37 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
• Phil 1:8 — For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 2:28 — I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
• Phil 4:1 — Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
• Phil 4:1 — Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
• Prov 12:25 — Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
• Ps 41:3 — The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
• Ps 69:20 — Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Rom 9:2 — That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
• Rom 12:15 — Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.