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 and gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

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

Song of Songs 1:3

Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do 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 rejoiceth the heart; and a good report maketh the bones fat.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth an offensive odor: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!

Isaiah 56:5

Even to them will I give in my house and within my walls a place 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 perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Luke 10:20

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

John 13:2

And supper being ended (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;)

2 Corinthians 5:1

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

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with 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, received not 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 henceforth: Verily, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garment;