Ecclesiastes 9:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Let thy garmentes be alwayes white, and let thy head lacke no oyntment.

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  • Ps 23:5 : 5 Thou wylt prepare a table before me in the presence of myne aduersaries: thou hast annoynted my head with oyle, and my cup shalbe brymme full.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I ate no pleasaunt bread, as for flesh and wine there came none within my mouth: no, I did not once annoynt my selfe till the whole three weekes of dayes were fulfilled.
  • Amos 6:6 : 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and annoynt them selues with chiefe ointmentes: but no man is sorie for the affliction of Ioseph.
  • Matt 6:17 : 17 But thou, when thou fastest, annoynt thyne head, and washe thy face:
  • Luke 7:46 : 46 Myne head with oyle thou dyddest not anoynt: but she hath anoynted my feete with oyntment.
  • Rev 3:4-5 : 4 Thou hast a fewe names in Sardis, which haue not defiled their garmetes, and they shall walke with me in white, for they are worthie. 5 He that ouercommeth, shalbe thus clothed in whyte aray, and I wyll not put out his name out of the booke of life, and I will confesse his name before my father, and before his Angels.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After this I behelde, and loe a great multitude which no man could number of all nations, and kinredes, and people, and tongues, stoode before the throne, and before the lambe, clothed with long whyte garmentes, and palmes in their handes,
  • Rev 7:13-14 : 13 And one of the elders aunswered, saying vnto me: What are these which are arayed in long whyte garmentes? and whence came they? 14 And he sayde vnto hym, Lorde thou wotest. And he sayde to me: These are they which came out of great tribulation, and haue wasshed their long robes, and made them whyte by the blood of the lambe.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 Beholde, I come as a theefe. Happie is he that watcheth and kepeth his garmentes, lest he walke naked, and men see his fylthynesse.
  • Rev 19:8 : 8 And to her was graunted that she should be arayed with pure and goodly raynes: For the raynes is the ryghteousnes of saintes.
  • Rev 19:14 : 14 And the warryers which were in heauen folowed hym vppon whyte horses, clothed with whyte and pure raynes.
  • Ruth 3:3 : 3 Wasshe thy selfe therfore, and annoynt thee, and put thy rayment vpon thee, & get thee downe to the floore: but let not the man knoweof thee, vntill he haue left eating and drincking.
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 And he sent to Thekoa, and fet thence a wyse woman, & sayde vnto her: I pray thee faine thy selfe to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparell, and annoynt not thy self with oyle, but be as a woman that had long tyme mourned for the dead:
  • 2 Sam 19:24 : 24 And Miphiboseth the sonne of Saul came downe to meete the kyng, and had neither washed his feete, nor dressed his bearde, nor washed his clothes, from the tyme the kyng departed, vntyll he came againe in peace.
  • Esth 8:15 : 15 And Mardocheus went out from the king in royall apparell, of yelowe and white, & with a great crowne of golde, being arayed with a garment of silke and purple: and the citie of Susan reioysed and was glad.

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