People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth. ² It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

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Proverbs 22:1

A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Song of Songs 1:3

Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

Job 3:17

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

Isaiah 56:5

I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

Isaiah 57:1-2

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

Luke 10:20

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

John 13:2

So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.

Philippians 1:21-23

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

Hebrews 11:2

For by it our fathers had God's approval.

Hebrews 11:39

And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

Revelation 14:13

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.