Ecclesiastes 7:1 Cross References - Great

¹ A Good name is more worth then a precyous oyntment, and the daye of death is better then the daye of byrth.

¹⁷ There must the wycked ceasse from theyr tyrannye, and ther soch as are ouerlaboured be at rest:

² Lyke the dewe of Hermon, which fell vpon the hyll of Sion.

³⁰ Lyke as the clearnesse of the eyes reioyseth the herte, so doth a good name fede the bones.

¹ A Good name is more worth then greate rychesse, and louinge fauoure is better then siluer and golde.

⁹ Balme and swete encense make the hert mery: so is the swete counsell of a mans frende that agreeth to his purpose.

² Wherfore I iudged those that are deed, to be more happye then soch as be alyue:

¹ A Deed flye doth corrupt swete oyntement & maketh it to stynk: Euen so oft tymes he that is made for wysdome & honour, is abhorred because of a lytle foolishnes.

³ & that, because of the good & pleasaunt sauoure of thy most preciouse balmes. Thy name is a swete smellynge oyntment when it is shed forthe, therfore do the maydens loue the:

¹⁰ O howe fayre are thy brestes, my syster, my spouse? Thy brestes are more pleasaunt then wyne, and the smel of thyne oyntmentes passeth all spyces.

⁵ Unto them wyll I geue in my housholde and wythin my walles, a better herytage & name, then yf they had bene called sonnes & daughters. I will geue them an euerlastinge name, that shall not perish.

¹ The ryghteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in hys hert, Good godly people are taken a waye, and no man consydreth it. Namely, that the ryghteous is conuayed awaye from the wycked. ² He commethe into peace, & godlye men rest in their chambres, and before the godly man goeth peace.

²⁰ Neuertheles, in this reioyse not, that the spretes are subdued vnto you: but reioyse, that youre names are wryten in heauen.

² And when supper was ended, after that the deuyll had put in the herte of Iudas Iscarioth Simons sonne, to be traye hym.

¹ For we knowe that yf oure erthy mancion of this dwellyng were destroyed, we haue a byldinge of God, an habitacyon not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.

⁸ Neuerthelesse, we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, and to be present with God.

²¹ For Christ is to me lyfe, and deeth is to me auauntage. ²² If it chaunce me to lyue in the flesshe, that thinge is to me frutefull for the worcke, and what I shall chose I wote not. ²³ For I am constrayned of these two thinges. I desyre to be loosed, & to be wt Christ which is moche & far better.

² For by it the elders obtayned a good reporte.

³⁹ And these all thorow faith obtained good reporte, & receaued not the promes,

¹³ And I hearde a voyce from heauen saying vnto me: wryte. Blessed are the deed, which here after dye in the Lorde, euen so sayth the sprete: that they rest from theyr laboures, but theyr workes folowe them.