Ecclesiastes 7:1

Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

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1 Samuel 18:30
Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

Acts 6:3
Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Acts 10:22
They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

Acts 22:12
“One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

2 Corinthians 8:18
We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

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Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;

Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

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Job 30:8
They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

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Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

John 16:21
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

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Proverbs 27:9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

Song of Solomon 4:10
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

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Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Proverbs 27:21
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

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Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

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Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Isaiah 57:2
He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

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Matthew 26:13
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”

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Luke 10:20
Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Hebrews 11:39
These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

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