Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. loving...: or, favour is better than, etc

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. from henceforth...: or, from henceforth saith the Spirit, Yea

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. Dead...: Heb. Flies of death

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

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

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. weary: Heb. wearied in strength

And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;