Proverbs 10:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have 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 lowly state of his servant. Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed,