16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Faith
• Justice and Mercy
• Righteousness

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

• 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
• 1Thess 3:8 — For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
• Acts 9:4 — And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• 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 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.
• Ezek 33:17 — Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
• Gal 6:9 — And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Heb 3:6 — But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Heb 3:14 — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• 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.
• Isa 66:14 — And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
• Jas 1:25 — But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
• 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 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 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• Jude 1:20 — But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• Luke 8:15 — But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
• Matt 3:9 — And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
• Nah 1:7 — The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
• Num 26:65 — For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
• Ps 28:4 — Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
• Ps 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
• Rev 2:5 — Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
• Rom 2:4 — Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Rom 2:4 — Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Rom 2:7 — To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Rom 9:22 — What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• Rom 15:8 — Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: