Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown (stephanos | στέφανος | voc sg masc), stand firm in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!

Everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath (stephanon | στέφανον | acc sg masc), but we for an imperishable one.

So Jesus came out, wearing the crown (stephanon | στέφανον | acc sg masc) of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said to them, “Look, the man!”

And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown (stephanon | στέφανον | acc sg masc) and placed it on his head, and they threw a purple robe around him.

And they clothed him in purple; and twisting some thorns into a crown (stephanon | στέφανον | acc sg masc), they placed it on him.

and twisting together a crown (stephanon | στέφανον | acc sg masc) of thorns, they placed it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling before him they mocked him, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!”

And when the blood of Stephen (Stephanou | Στεφάνου | gen sg masc), your witness, was being shed, I myself was standing by approving and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’

Now those who were scattered because of the persecution, which came to pass over Stephen (Stephanō | Στεφάνῳ | dat sg masc), made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews only.

Devout men buried Stephen (Stephanon | Στέφανον | acc sg masc) and made great lamentation over him.

They kept stoning Stephen (Stephanon | Στέφανον | acc sg masc) as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”