Verse 7

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 112:6 : 6 For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
• Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
• Mark 14:9 : 9 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."
• Luke 1:48 : 48 for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
• Ps 9:5-6 : 5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever. 6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
• Eccl 8:10 : 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
• 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
• 2 Kgs 19:34 : 34 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"
• 2 Chr 24:16 : 16 They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
• Job 18:17 : 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
• Job 27:23 : 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
• Jer 17:13 : 13 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
• Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;