Ecclesiastes 7:1 Cross References - ASV

¹ A [good] name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are at rest.

² It is like the precious oil upon the head,
That ran down upon the beard,
Even Aaron's beard;
That came down upon the skirt of his garments;

³⁰ The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart;
[And] good tidings make the bones fat.

¹ A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
[And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.

⁹ Oil and perfume rejoice the heart;
So doth the sweetness of a man's friend [that cometh] of hearty counsel.

² Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

¹ Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; [so] doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

³ Thine oils have a goodly fragrance;
Thy name is [as] oil poured forth;
Therefore do the virgins love thee.

¹⁰ How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] bride!
How much better is thy love than wine!
And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

⁵ Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. ² He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

²⁰ Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.}

² And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him,

¹ For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

⁸ we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in the flesh,—[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. ²³ But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

² For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

³⁹ And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.