Ecclesiastes 7:1

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than a good ointment,
And the day of one’s death is 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. That is the end for all men and the living takes it to heart.

Precious Ointment

Precious Oil

Proverbs 22:1

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

Ecclesiastes 4:2

I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Song of Songs 1:3

Your good ointment has a pleasing aroma. Your name is like pure ointment. Therefore the maidens do love you.

Job 3:17

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

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones healthy.

Proverbs 27:9

As oil and perfume delight the heart so the sweetness of a man's friend delights his heart.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the perfumer's oil to smell. A little foolishness does the same for the one with a reputation for wisdom and honor.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is your love, my sister, and my spouse! How much better is your love than wine! The smell of your perfume than all spices!

Isaiah 56:5

I will give to those within my Temple and its walls a memorial and a name that is better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Isaiah 57:1-2

The righteous perishes and no man takes it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil.

Luke 10:20

Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. Rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.

John 13:2

The devil influenced the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son. So he betrayed him during the meal.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing 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

God approved of the men of old because of their faith.

Hebrews 11:39

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise.

Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven say: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard, Aaron's beard, coming down upon the edge of his robes.