Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked rots. A godly life leaves a lasting, honored legacy; wickedness fades to shame.

Cross-references · 13

• Ps 112:6Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
• Luke 1:48For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.
• Mark 14:9And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
• Ps 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
• 2 Chr 24:16And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
• Ps 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
• Ps 9:5–6You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
• Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• 1 Kgs 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
• 2 Kgs 19:34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
• Eccl 8:10Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
• Job 27:23It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
• Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

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