Bible Verses About Keeping a Good Name
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for keeping a good name, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,481 votes, led by Proverbs 22:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Keeping a Good Name
Proverbs 22:1287 votes
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Ecclesiastes 7:1253 votes
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
Proverbs 10:7210 votes
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
1 Peter 2:12144 votes
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Proverbs 22:1-2143 votes
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
3 John 1:12136 votes
Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
Proverbs 20:7111 votes
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Proverbs 3:3-4109 votes
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
1 Timothy 3:7101 votes
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Acts 6:388 votes
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Proverbs 21:2187 votes
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Philippians 2:1569 votes
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Proverbs 3:455 votes
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
2 Corinthians 8:2146 votes
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
Luke 6:2241 votes
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
Philippians 2:9-1140 votes
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Titus 2:7-833 votes
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Matthew 5:1629 votes
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Colossians 2:829 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
1 Peter 3:1629 votes
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
Proverbs 15:128 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
1 Timothy 5:828 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Philippians 2:2226 votes
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Proverbs 4:23-2724 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Luke 6:3124 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
What does the Bible say about keeping a good name?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 22:1 on the subject of keeping a good name. Across 2,481 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 7:1, Proverbs 10:7, 1 Peter 2:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.