Ecclesiastes 7:1

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better 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 should take this to heart.

Precious Ointment

Precious Oil

Proverbs 22:1

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Song of Songs 1:3

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Proverbs 27:9

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Song of Songs 4:10

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine. The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices.

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

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

John 13:2

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

2 Corinthians 5:1

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

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with 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 elders obtained testimony.

Hebrews 11:39

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, did not receive the promise,

Revelation 14:13

I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;