Ecclesiastes 7:1

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A [good] name is better than precious oil, and the day of death, than the day of birth. ² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.

Precious Ointment

Precious Oil

Proverbs 22:1

A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.

Song of Songs 1:3

Thine oils have a good fragrance. Thy name is oil poured forth. Therefore the virgins love thee.

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news make the bones fat.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor, [so] a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Isaiah 56:5

To them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 57:1-2

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are made subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

John 13:2

And supper having occurred, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he would betray him,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

Philippians 1:21-23

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Hebrews 11:2

For by this the ancients were well reported.

Hebrews 11:39

And all these, having been well reported through faith, did not receive the promise,

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in Lord from henceforth. Yea, says the Spirit, so that they may rest from their toils, and their works follow with them.

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that came down upon the skirt of his garments,