– He is the one who is in a state of grace before the Lord:
Gen 18:23 : Abraham approached and said: “Will you make the righteous perish with the wicked?”.
Ez 18,5 : The righteous man – Who proceeds according to right and equity.
Ps 111 :1 : Happy is the man who fears the Lord and takes pleasure in keeping his commandments.
Pr 8,20 : I follow the path of justice, in the middle of the path of equity.
– In the Bible there are several characters called “righteous”.
– In the AT: Abel, Noah, Lot, Job, the Servant of Yahweh, the Messiah:
1Jn 3:12 : And why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Gen 6:9: It’s the story of Noah: Noah was a just and perfect man among the men of his generation. He walked with God.
Eclo 44,17 : Noah was judged just and perfect, and in the time of wrath he became the link of reconciliation.
Ez 14,14 : Noah, Daniel and Job, these three men would only save themselves, due to their justice – oracle of the Lord Yahweh.
2Pd 2,7 : Finally, he delivered righteous Lot, revolted by the dissolute life of those perverse people.
Job 32 :1 : As Job persisted in considering himself as righteous, these three men gave up answering him.
Is 53:11 : The Just One, my Servant, will justify many men, and will bear their iniquities.
Jer 23 :5 : I will make David sprout a righteous shoot who will be king […] and will exercise justice and equity in the land.
– In the NT: Mary, Joseph, her husband, Zechariah and Elizabeth, John the Baptist, Simeon, Joseph of Arimathea, Cornelius:
Lk 1,28 : Entering, the angel said to her: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you”.
Mt 1,19 : Joseph, her husband, who was a good man, not wanting to defame her, decided to secretly reject her.
Lc 1,6 : Both were righteous before God and blamelessly observed all the commandments and precepts of the Lord.
Mark 6:20 : For Herod respected John, knowing him to be a just and holy man.
Luke 2:25 : There was a man named Simeon in Jerusalem. This righteous and pious man was waiting for the consolation of Israel.
Luke 23:50 : There was a man named Joseph, a member of the council, an upright and just man.
Acts 10:22 : The centurion Cornelius, a righteous and God-fearing man, who enjoys an excellent reputation among all the Jews.
– See WICKED.
