Ecclesiastes 7:1

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's 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; and loving favor rather than silver or gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.

Song of Songs 1:3

For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.

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; a good report makes the bones fat.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than honor.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!

Isaiah 56:5

even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand 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 one perishes, and no one lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.

Luke 10:20

Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

John 13:2

And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray Him,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

Philippians 1:21-23

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

Hebrews 11:2

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Hebrews 11:39

And these all, having obtained a good report 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 the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard, Aaron's beard, that went down to the mouth of his garments;