8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• 1Cor 11:19 — For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
• 1Pet 1:7 — That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
• 1Tim 3:10 — And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
• 2Cor 2:9 — For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
• 2Cor 8:22 — And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
• 2Tim 2:15 — Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
• 2Tim 4:19 — Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
• Deut 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
• Phil 2:22 — But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
• Rom 14:18 — For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.