Verse 1

Better `is' a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:1 : 1 A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace.
  • Eccl 4:2 : 2 And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
  • Song 1:3 : 3 For fragrance `are' thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 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.
  • Phil 1:21-23 : 21 for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain. 22 And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not; 23 for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,
  • Rev 14:13 : 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!'
  • Prov 15:30 : 30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.
  • Heb 11:2 : 2 for in this were the elders testified of;
  • Heb 11:39 : 39 and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
  • Isa 56:5 : 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.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying `it' to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. 2 He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, `Each' is going straightforward.
  • Luke 10:20 : 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 : 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 Cor 5:1 : 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,
  • Eccl 10:1 : 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!
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.
  • Job 3:17 : 17 There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
  • Ps 133:2 : 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,
  • Song 4:10 : 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.