Ecclesiastes 7:1

¹³I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”

¹A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

²Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

⁸We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

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

²¹For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²²But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose. ²³But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

³Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

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

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

¹The 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. ²He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.