Proverbs 10:7

New King James Version

The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.

2 Kings 19:34

‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”

2 Chronicles 24:16

And they buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and His house.

2 Chronicles 32:33

So Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

Job 18:17

The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned.

Job 24:20

The womb should forget him, The worm should feed sweetly on him; He should be remembered no more, And wickedness should be broken like a tree.

Job 27:23

Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Psalm 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Psalm 112:6

Surely he will never be shaken; The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalm 34:17

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 41:5

My enemies speak evil of me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

Proverbs 22:1

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 14:22

“For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. “Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the Lord, The fountain of living waters.”

Mark 14:9

Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

Luke 1:48

For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.