'Righteous Man' in the Bible

These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O Lord,You surround him with favor as with a shield.

The righteous man will be glad in the Lord and will take refuge in Him;And all the upright in heart will glory.

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser,Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal,But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

A righteous man hates falsehood,But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity—How blessed are his sons after him.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted wellIs a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

I said to myself, “God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man,” for a time for every matter and for every deed is there.

I have seen everything during my lifetime of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.

Let the wicked forsake his wayAnd the unrighteous man his thoughts;And let him return to the Lord,And He will have compassion on him,And to our God,For He will abundantly pardon.

The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.”

“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.

And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, ‘The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”

And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

And a man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council, a good and righteous man

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.

Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “The righteous man shall live by faith.”

You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),