It is possible for someone to be less or more righteous
It is possible for someone to be less or more righteous
Summary:
It is possible for someone to be less or more righteous. That is, someone can be more righteous tomorrow than they were yesterday.
From this is could follow that someone could be more righteous in comparison to someone else, even though both could still be considered as being righteous.
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It is possible for someone to be more righteous than someone else:
Genesis 38:
It is written: "Judah knew and said, SHE IS MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN I, BECAUSE I did not give her to my son Shelah" (Genesis 38:26 (Masoretic)).
1 Samuel 24:
Saul the king "said to David, YOU ARE MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN I. FOR you have rewarded me as with a good one, and I have rewarded you as with an evil one" (1 Samuel 24:17).
Ezekiel 16:
It is written: "And Samaria has not sinned as much as half your sins, but you have multiplied your disgusting things more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your disgusting things which you have done. And you who have mediated for your sisters must bear your shame BY YOUR SINS WHICH YOU ABOMINABLY DID MORE THAN THEY; THEY ARE MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN YOU. And also you be ashamed and lift up your shame, in that you have judged your sisters" (Ezekiel 16:51-52 (Masoretic)).
Matthew 5:
Jesus said: "whoever DOES and teaches (THESE COMMANDMENTS), this (one) will-be-called great in the kingdom (of) the heavens. FOR I-say (to) you that unless YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ABOUNDS MORE (THAN THAT OF) THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, by-no-means you-will-enter into the kingdom (of) the heavens" (Matthew 5:20).
Someone people may be described as having an exceptional overall righteousness:
David:
David may have been described as having an exceptional overall righteousness, as it is written: "DAVID DID THAT WHICH IS RIGHT in the eyes of Jehovah, AND DID NOT TURN ASIDE FROM ALL THAT HE COMMANDED HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE, EXCEPT in the matter of Uriah the Hittite" (1 Kings 15:5).
Job:
It is written: "There was a certain man in (the) land of Uz, whose name (was) JOB. And that man was true, blameless, RIGHTEOUS" (Job 1:1). Job may have been described as having an exceptional over righteousness, as several verses later the Lord said that this is "my servant JOB, THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM ON THE EARTH, a man, blameless, true, fearing God, abstaining from every evil thing" (Job 1:8).
Noah, Daniel, Job:
Noah, Daniel and Job may have been assumed as having an exceptional overall righteousness, as it may be implied in the following passage mentioning them specifically (instead of just mentioning "righteous" people in general): "if a land shall sin against Me to commit apostasy, a trespass, then I will stretch out My hand upon it, and will break in pieces its support of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and drive away off from it humanity and beasts. And though these three men should be in the midst of it, NOAH, and DANIEL, and JOB, BY THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS [ONLY] THEY WILL BE DELIVERED,” says the LORD" (Ezekiel 14:13-14).
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