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 112:6For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
• Luke 1:48for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
• Mark 14:9Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
• Ps 109:13Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
• 2 Chr 24:16They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
• Ps 109:15Let them be before Yahweh continually, 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 blotted out their name forever and ever.
• Job 18:17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
• 1 Kgs 11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
• 2 Kgs 19:34‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
• Eccl 8:10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
• Job 27:23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
• Jer 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

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