Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
4 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “righteousness” →
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person , a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it , to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.