Perfume

Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’” — read the full passage →

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. — read the full passage →

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. — read the full passage →

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

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. — read the full passage →

I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved

a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. — read the full passage →

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

You went to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and sent your ambassadors far off, and debased yourself even to Sheol.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. — read the full passage →

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, — read the full passage →

the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah one of the perfumers made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall.

He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.