Proverbs 10:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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, that David my servant 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 toward God and his house.

2 Chronicles 32:33

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

Job 18:17

His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

Job 24:20

The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him 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; he will be remembered for ever.

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 delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 41:5

My enemies say of me in malice: “When will he die, and his 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 Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Mark 14:9

And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

Luke 1:48

for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;