Ecclesiastes 7:1

Young's Literal Translation 1898

Better [is] a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

Cross References

Job 3:17

There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

Psalm 133:2

As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.

Proverbs 22:1

A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold — good grace.

Proverbs 25:10

Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend — from counsel of the soul.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom — By reason of honour — a little folly!

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

Song of Solomon 1:3

For fragrance [are] thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out — thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

Song of Solomon 4:10

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

Isaiah 56:5

I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.’

Luke 10:20

but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.’

John 13:2

And supper being come, the devil already having put [it] into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands — age-during — in the heavens,

2 Corinthians 5:8

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Hebrews 11:2

for in this were the elders testified of;

Hebrews 11:39

and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, ‘Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!’ ‘Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours — and their works do follow them!’

Ruth 3:14

And she lieth down at his feet till the morning, and riseth before one doth discern another; and he saith, ‘Let it not be known that the woman hath come into the floor.’