Verse 1

A good name is more worth then a precious oyntment, and the daye of death is better the ye daye of byrth.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 22:1 : 1 A good name is more worth then greate riches, and louynge fauor is better then syluer and golde.
• Eccl 4:2 : 2 Wherfore I iudged those that are deed, to be more happie then soch as be alyue:
• Song 1:3 : 3 & that because of the good and pleasaunt sauoure. Thy name is a swete smellynge oyntment, therfore do the maydens loue the:
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.
• Phil 1:21-23 : 21 For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage. 22 But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what 23 I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)
• Rev 14:13 : 13 And I herde a voyce from heauen, sayenge vnto me: wryte: Blessed are ye deed, which here after dye in the LORDE. Yee the sprete sayeth, that they rest from their laboures, for their workes folowe them.
• Prov 15:30 : 30 Like as ye clearnesse of ye eyes reioyseth ye herte, so doth a good name fede ye bones.
• Heb 11:2 : 2 By it ye Elders were well reported of.
• Heb 11:39 : 39 And these all thorow faith optayned good reporte, and receaued not ye promes:
• Isa 56:5 : 5 Vnto them wil I geue in my housholde and with in my walles, a better heretage & name: the yf they had bene called sonnes & daughters. I wil geue them an euerlastinge name, that shall not perishe.
• Isa 57:1-2 : 1 Bvt in the meane season ye righteous perisheth, & no ma regardeth it in his hert. Good godly people are taken awaye. & no ma cosidreth it. Namely: that the righteous is conuayed awaye thorow ye wicked: 2 that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly vpon his bed, & lyue after his owne pleasure.
• Luke 10:20 : 20 Neuertheles, reioyce not ye in this, that the spretes are subdued vnto you: but reioyse, that youre names are wrytten in heauen.
• John 13:2 : 2 And after supper, whan the deuell had allready put into ye hert of Iudas Iscarioth Symons sonne, to betraye him,
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 We knowe surely, yt yf oure earthy house of this dwellynge were destroyed, we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God, an house not made with handes, but euerlastynge in heauen.
• Eccl 10:1 : 1 Deed flyes yt corruppe swete oyntment & make it to styncke, are somthinge more worth then the wy?dome & honor of a foole.
• Prov 27:9 : 9 The herte is glad of a swete oyntment and sauoure, but a stomacke that ca geue good councell, reioyseth a mans neghboure.
• Job 3:17 : 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured, be at rest:
• Ps 133:2 : 2 Like the dewe of Hermon, which fell vpon the hill of Sion.
• Song 4:10 : 10 O how fayre and louely are thy brestes, my sister, my spouse? Thy brestes are more pleasaunt then wyne, and the smell of thy oyntmentes passeth all spices.