14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Righteousness
• Sin
• Truth

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

• 2Cor 4:6 — For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Acts 5:3 — But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Acts 8:19 — Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
• Col 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Col 4:6 — Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• Deut 6:7 — And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Eph 3:8 — Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Eph 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Eph 5:19 — Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
• Heb 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, an
• Jas 3:5 — Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
• Jer 9:2 — Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
• Job 15:5 — For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
• John 7:4 — For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
• John 7:38 — He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• Jude 1:15 — To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have sp
• 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.
• Luke 12:13 — And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
• Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Matt 15:17 — Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
• Matt 23:26 — Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
• Prov 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Prov 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Prov 10:20 — The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
• Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 15:23 — A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
• Prov 21:20 — There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
• Prov 22:17 — Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
• Ps 12:2 — They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
• Ps 37:30 — The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• Ps 40:8 — I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 41:6 — And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
• Ps 52:2 — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Ps 59:7 — Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Ps 59:12 — For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
• Ps 64:3 — Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Ps 71:15 — My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
• Ps 140:5 — The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.