18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

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• Faith

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

• 1Cor 1:4 — I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
• 1Cor 1:4 — I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
• 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1Pet 4:11 — If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be p
• 1Thess 1:2 — We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
• 1Thess 1:8 — For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
• 1Thess 1:8 — For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
• 1Thess 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which e
• 1Tim 2:1 — I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
• 2Cor 3:2 — Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
• 2Thess 1:3 — We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 2Tim 1:3 — I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
• 3John 1:3 — For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
• Col 1:3 — We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
• Col 1:3 — We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
• Col 1:9 — For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
• Col 3:17 — And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
• Eph 1:15 — Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
• Eph 1:16 — Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
• Eph 5:20 — Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Heb 13:15 — By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
• Mark 13:10 — And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
• Matt 24:14 — And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
• Phil 1:3 — I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
• Phil 1:3 — I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
• Phil 1:11 — Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
• Phil 4:19 — But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
• Phlm 1:4 — I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
• Rev 16:14 — For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
• Rom 6:17 — But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
• Rom 6:17 — But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
• Rom 10:18 — But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
• Rom 16:19 — For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
• Rom 16:19 — For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.