These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 3
Tanakh 22 verses
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the :
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A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
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Hebrews 9:27 Job 14:5 Acts 7:20 Galatians 4:4 Matthew 13:41 Matthew 15:13 1 Samuel 2:5 Isaiah 5:2-5 1 Kings 13:2 Job 7:1 Job 14:14 Genesis 17:21 Isaiah 38:5 2 Kings 4:16 Luke 1:36 Isaiah 38:1 Jeremiah 1:10 Jeremiah 45:4 Acts 7:17 John 16:21 Genesis 21:1-2 Numbers 27:12-14 Isaiah 54:1 Genesis 47:29 Deuteronomy 3:23-26 Jeremiah 18:7-10 Luke 1:13 Luke 1:20 Deuteronomy 34:5 Numbers 20:24-28 Matthew 13:28-29 Psalm 52:5 Psalm 113:9 John 7:30 - 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;
- 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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Amos 5:13 Genesis 37:29 Amos 8:3 Acts 9:39 2 Kings 6:30 2 Kings 5:7 1 Samuel 19:4-5 Genesis 44:18 Job 32:4-22 Genesis 44:34 Micah 7:5 Isaiah 36:21 2 Samuel 3:31 Psalm 39:2 Jeremiah 36:24 Proverbs 24:11-12 Esther 7:4 Proverbs 31:8-9 1 Kings 21:27 Jeremiah 8:14 Genesis 37:34 Luke 19:37-40 2 Samuel 1:11 Job 2:13 Esther 4:13-14 Joel 2:13 Acts 4:20 1 Samuel 25:24-44 Lamentations 3:28 - 8 A time to , and a time to hate; A time for war, and a time for .
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What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?
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I have seen the task which hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
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- 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their , yet so that man cannot find out the work that hath done from the beginning even to the end.
- 12 I that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.
- 13 But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the of .
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I that, whatsoever doeth, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it; and hath so made it, that men should before Him.
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James 1:17 Psalm 33:11 Romans 11:36 Acts 2:23 John 19:10-11 Revelation 15:4 Titus 1:2 Proverbs 21:30 Ecclesiastes 7:18 Acts 4:28 Daniel 11:2-4 Ecclesiastes 5:7 Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 John 19:28-37 Daniel 4:34-35 Psalm 119:90-91 Daniel 8:8 Proverbs 19:21 Acts 5:39 Isaiah 46:10 Proverbs 30:6 Psalm 76:10 Isaiah 10:12-15 Isaiah 59:18-19 Ephesians 3:11 Psalm 64:9 -
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That which is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and seeketh that which is pursued.
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- 16 And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of , that wickedness was there.
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I said in my : ‘The righteous and the wicked will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.’
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Matthew 16:27 Ecclesiastes 3:1 2 Corinthians 5:10 Psalm 98:9 Genesis 18:25 Ecclesiastes 12:14 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 Romans 2:5-10 John 5:26-29 Ecclesiastes 8:6 2 Peter 3:7-8 Revelation 20:7-9 Daniel 11:40 Revelation 11:18 Daniel 12:9 Revelation 20:11-15 Daniel 12:11-13 Ecclesiastes 1:16 Revelation 20:2 Matthew 25:31-46 1 Corinthians 4:5 1 Thessalonians 5:1 Acts 1:7 Revelation 11:2-3 John 5:22 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Daniel 12:4 Jeremiah 29:10-11 Acts 17:31 Ecclesiastes 2:1 Revelation 17:12-17 - 18 I said in my : ‘It is because of the sons of men, that may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.’
- 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity.
- 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
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Who knoweth the of man whether it goeth upward, and the of the beast whether it goeth downward to the earth?
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Wherefore I perceived that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
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Ecclesiastes 8:7 Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 10:14 Ecclesiastes 2:24 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Philippians 4:4-5 Job 14:21 Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 Romans 12:11-12 Daniel 12:13 Matthew 6:34 Daniel 12:9-10 Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 Deuteronomy 28:47 Deuteronomy 12:7 Ecclesiastes 8:15 Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 Ecclesiastes 9:12 Deuteronomy 26:10-11 Deuteronomy 12:18