15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Suffering and Perseverance

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

• 1Cor 13:6 — Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
• 1Cor 16:9 — For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
• 1Thess 4:6 — That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
• 1Tim 1:19 — Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
• 1Tim 5:15 — For some are already turned aside after Satan.
• 2Cor 2:4 — For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
• 2Cor 11:3 — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 2Pet 2:10 — But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
• 2Tim 3:4 — Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
• Acts 20:19 — Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
• Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Eph 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• Gal 1:7 — Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
• Gal 2:14 — But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews
• Gal 6:12 — As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
• Gen 25:34 — Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
• Heb 13:17 — Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
• Isa 8:11 — For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
• Jer 13:17 — But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
• Matt 13:38 — The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
• Phil 1:4 — Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
• Phil 1:15 — Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
• Phil 1:27 — Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striv
• Ps 119:53 — Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
• Rom 8:5 — For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
• Rom 9:2 — That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.