Here are your Examples of Biblical individuals who were righteous as declared by Holy Scripture due to living righteous lives
1.) Noah
Gen. 6:9 .... Noah was
a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Gen. 7:1 And the Lord said unto Noah,.....
for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2.) Abraham
James. 2:21 Was not
Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?......23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith,
Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
3.) Lot
2 Pet 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (
For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds
4.) Job
Job 1:8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou
considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect (Strong’s 8535) and an
upright (Strong’s 3477) man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
5.) King David
Ps. 7:10 My defence is of God, which saveth
the upright in heart.11 God
judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Ps. 18:23 I was also
upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.24 Therefore hath the
Lord recompensed me according to MY righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
2 Samuel 22:21
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also
upright (Strong’s 8549) before him, and
have kept myself from mine iniquity.25 Therefore the
Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright (Strong’s 8549) man thou wilt shew thyself upright.27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
1 King. 14:8 .....
my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
1 King. 15:5 Because
David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
2 King. 14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse,
a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
6.) King Asa
1 King. 15:11 And
Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.—14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless
Asa’s heart was perfect (Strong’s 8003) with the Lord all his days.
2 Chron. 14:2 And
Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:4 And
commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
7.) King Hezekiah
2 King. 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.—3 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.6
For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but KEPT HIS COMMANDMENTS, WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES.
8.) King Josiah
2 King. 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.2 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 King. 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that t
urned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
2 Chron. 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.2 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
9.) Enoch
Hebr. 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation
he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Moses and all of Israel were told to be perfect (which means they could)
Deut.18:13 Thou shalt be
perfect (Strong’s 8549) with the Lord thy God.
10.) Abel and Zacharias
Matt. 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from
the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Hebr. 11:4
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which
he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you:
he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
11.) Joseph, Mary’s husband
Matt. 1:19 Then Joseph her husband,
being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
12.) Joseph, the counsellor
Luk. 23:50 And,
behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
13.) Cornelius
Acts 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,2
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. —22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion,
a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
14.) John the Baptist
Mark. 6:20 For Herod feared
John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the
wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
15.) Simeon
Luke 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was
Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
16.) The Apostle Paul (after his conversion)
1 Thess. 2:10
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
Acts 23:1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren,
I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
17.) The priest Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth
Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.6 And
they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
