In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.