Verse 1

A good name is more worth then precious oyntment: & the day of death, is better the the day of byrth.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 22:1 : 1 A good name is more to be desired then great riches: and louing fauour is better then siluer and golde.
• Eccl 4:2 : 2 Wherfore I iudged those that are dead, to be more happy then those that be alyue?
• Song 1:3 : 3 and that because of the good and pleasaunt sauour of thy most precious baulmes. Thy name is a sweet smelling oyntment when it is shed foorth, therfore do the maydens loue thee.
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lorde.
• Phil 1:21-23 : 21 For Christe is to me lyfe, and death is to me aduantage. 22 But if I lyue in the fleshe, this (is) the fruite of my labour, and what I shall chose, I wote not. 23 For I am in a strayte betwixt two, hauyng a desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which is much farre better.
• Rev 14:13 : 13 And I hearde a voyce from heauen, saying vnto me, write: Blessed are the dead, which hereafter dye in the Lorde. Euen so sayth the spirite, that they rest from their laboures, and their workes folowe them.
• Prov 15:30 : 30 The clearnes of the eye reioyseth the heart, & a good name feedeth the bones.
• Heb 11:2 : 2 For by it, the elders obtayned a good report.
• Heb 11:39 : 39 And these all through fayth, obteyned good report, and receaued not the promise:
• Isa 56:5 : 5 Unto them wyll I geue in my householde and within my walles, a better heritage and name then yf they had ben called sonnes and daughters: I wyll geue them an euerlastyng name that shall not perishe.
• Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The ryghteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart: good godly people are taken away, & no man considereth it, namely, that the righteous is conueyed away from the wicked. 2 He commeth into peace, and godly men rest in their chaumbers, and before the godly man goeth peace.
• Luke 10:20 : 20 Neuerthelesse, in this reioyce not, that the spirites are subdued vnto you: but rather reioyce, because your names are written in heauen.
• John 13:2 : 2 And when supper was ended (after that the deuyll had put in the heart of Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, to betray hym)
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.
• Eccl 10:1 : 1 A dead flye doth corrupt sweete oyntment, and maketh it to stinke: Euen so oft tymes he that hath ben had in estimation for wysdome and honour, is abhorred because of a litle foolishnesse.
• Prov 27:9 : 9 Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart.
• Job 3:17 : 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:
• Ps 133:2 : 2 It is lyke vnto a pretious oyntment powred vpon the head, which runneth downe vpon the beard, euen vpon Aarons beard: which also runneth downe vpon the skyrtes of his garmentes.
• Song 4:10 : 10 O howe fayre are thy breastes, my sister, my spouse? Thy breastes are more pleasaunt then wine, and the smell of thyne oyntmentes passeth all spices.