Ecclesiastes 7:1

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name exceeds the value of fine perfume, and the day of someone's death exceeds the value of the day of his birth. ² It's better to attend a funeral than to attend a banquet, for everyone dies eventually, and the living will take this to heart.

Precious Ointment

Precious Oil

Proverbs 22:1

A good reputation is more desirable than great wealth, and favorable acceptance more than silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So I commended the dead who had already died as being happier than the living who are still alive.

Song of Songs 1:3

The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.

Job 3:17

In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.

Proverbs 15:30

Bright eyes encourage the heart; good news nourishes the body.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink, so also does a little foolishness to one's reputation of 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, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.

Isaiah 56:5

to them I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Isaiah 57:1-2

"Also the righteous are perishing, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from calamity.

Luke 10:20

However, stop rejoicing because the spirits are submitting to you. Instead, rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

John 13:2

By supper time, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.

Philippians 1:21-23

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

Hebrews 11:2

By faith our ancestors won approval.

Hebrews 11:39

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,

Revelation 14:13

I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: How blessed are the dead, that is, those who die in the Lord from now on!" "Yes," says the Spirit. "Let them rest from their labors, for their actions follow them."

Psalm 133:2

It is like precious oil on the head, descending to the beard even to Aaron's beard and flowing down to the edge of his robes.