Proverbs 10:7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that my servant David may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.

2 Kings 19:34

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.’ ”

2 Chronicles 24:16

And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and for God and his house.

2 Chronicles 32:33

Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him on the ascent to the tombs of the descendants of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. His son Manasseh succeeded him.

Job 18:17

Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.

Job 24:20

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at them, and hisses at them from its place.

Psalm 109:13

May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually, and may his memory be cut off from the earth.

Psalm 112:6

For the righteous will never be moved; they will be remembered forever.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalm 34:17

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles.

Psalm 41:5

My enemies wonder in malice when I will die, and my name perish.

Proverbs 22:1

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

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 14:22

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

Jeremiah 17:13

O hope of Israel! O Lord! All who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be recorded in the underworld, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.

Mark 14:9

Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”

Luke 1:48

for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;