Comment: Some people ignorantly claim that there are no righteous persons on earth. This is not correct. When one is determined to do right by diligently keeping the commandments of God all the time, he is counted as righteous before God. Though such ones may make mistakes, they do not relish in such errors but make efforts not to do so again. (Proverbs 28:13,14) Thus, there are, by the grace of God, many men, women, boys and girls who are morally upright, humble and willing to do the Lord’s will by His grace.
Abraham, Lot, Noah, Moses, Joshua, Job, David, Simeon, Zechariah and women like Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, and so on were righteous people. Though some of them lived among the ungodly, they never compromised their faith in God. Concerning Lot the Bible says, that “For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.” – 2 Peter 2:8
We cannot claim to be devout worshippers of God today and expect Him to hear us, unless we honestly and diligently keep His laws. Scripture says: “Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.” (John 9:31) We can live among the ungodly and not conform to the world (Romans 12:2) or join them to do unrighteousness. – Exodus 23:2.