The phrase "a righteous person" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is morally right or virtuous.
Example: "In times of crisis, a righteous person often stands up for what is just and fair."
Alternatives: "a virtuous individual" or "a morally upright person."
However, the Book of Job offers not only a dramatic illustration of the problem of evil — a righteous person suffering, apparently unjustly, in God's creation — but also, in its various speeches, an early expression of three classic theodicean responses to this challenge.
Even in vocabulary there developed a system of "ahuric" and "daivic" words for such things as body parts: for example, the word zasta was used for the hand of a righteous person and gava for the hand of an evil person.
The movie convincingly brings us into Larry's spacey state, somewhere between shock and trance, and brilliantly suggests that he is on the verge not of a breakdown – nothing so banal – but rather an epiphany, a vision of how he has erred, how he has lived, and what the essence of his life should be as an observant Jew, a righteous person and a serious man.
For example, a righteous person would not cheat at a game, or accept a bribe.
Thus, a righteous person would object to being addressed disrespectfully (7B31), and would not engage in an illicit sexual relationship (3B3).
I'm such a righteous person, such a great spiritual practitioner".
At the end of the film, he retires a physically broken man who's merely done what any righteous person should in his situation.
* Tzaddik is a Hebrew term for a particularly righteous person.
*Tzaddik is a Hebrew term for a particularly righteous person.
A religious extremist is a self righteous person gone too far.
The Talmud teaches us that where a person who sins and repents stands, a truly righteous person can never stand.
