A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.


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Exodus 12 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 20 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Exodus 20 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 21 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Leviticus 14 56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
Leviticus 23 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Leviticus 23 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 27 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
Deuteronomy 5 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 11 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Deuteronomy 19 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 28 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy 29 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy 29 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Deuteronomy 30 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
1 Samuel 2 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Samuel 12 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel 24 18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
2 Samuel 1 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 22 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
1 Kings 2 37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
1 Kings 11 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
1 Chronicles 16 34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
1 Chronicles 29 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Esther 8 8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Job 3 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Job 3 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job 3 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 5 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 11 12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Job 11 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Job 13 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 16 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 24 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 28 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job 33 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Job 36 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Job 38 23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Psalms 6 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 8 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Psalms 9 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 14 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 18 25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Psalms 18 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Psalms 22 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Psalms 23 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Psalms 29 2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.