12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Church
• Joy
• Love

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

• 1Cor 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
• 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
• 1Thess 2:8 — So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
• 1Thess 2:19 — For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
• 1Thess 2:19 — For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
• 1Thess 3:8 — For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
• 1Thess 3:13 — To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
• 2Cor 1:14 — As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 2Cor 1:14 — As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 2Cor 9:14 — And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
• 2Pet 3:11 — Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
• 2Pet 3:17 — Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
• 2Thess 2:15 — Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
• 2Thess 2:15 — Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
• 2Tim 2:1 — Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 2:42 — And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• Acts 11:23 — Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
• Acts 13:43 — Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
• Acts 14:22 — Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• Col 4:12 — Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Eph 6:10 — Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
• Gal 5:1 — Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• Heb 3:14 — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• Heb 4:14 — Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
• Heb 10:23 — Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
• Heb 10:35 — Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• 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
• Jas 1:16 — Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
• John 15:3 — Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
• Jude 1:20 — But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• Jude 1:24 — Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
• 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.
• Phil 1:8 — For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 1:8 — For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• 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
• Phil 2:12 — Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Phil 2:16 — Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
• Phil 2:26 — For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.