6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Righteousness
• Sin

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

• 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
• Hos 4:6 — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will
• Hos 7:10 — And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
• Isa 9:13 — For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 31:1 — Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Isra
• Isa 55:6 — Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Isa 65:1 — I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
• Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Job 24:13 — They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
• Matt 7:7 — Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
• Matt 13:13 — Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
• Matt 13:19 — When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
• Prov 1:7 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 1:22 — How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 1:29 — For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
• Ps 14:2 — The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Ps 14:2 — The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Ps 53:2 — God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
• Ps 94:8 — Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Ps 119:155 — Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
• Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Rom 1:31 — Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
• Rom 8:7 — Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Zeph 1:6 — And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.