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Ecclesiastes 3:1–2

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TO every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
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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From verse 1

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:17Rank 1 from verse 1
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    17I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

  2. Matthew 16:3Rank 2 from verse 1
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    3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

  3. Ecclesiastes 8:5–6Rank 3 from verse 1
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    5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

    6¶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

  4. Ecclesiastes 7:14Rank 4 from verse 1
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    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

  5. 2 Kings 5:26Rank 5 from verse 1
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    26And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

  6. Proverbs 15:23Rank 6 from verse 1
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    23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

  7. 2 Chronicles 33:12Rank 7 from verse 1
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    12And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

  8. Ecclesiastes 2:3Rank 8 from verse 1
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    3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

  9. Ecclesiastes 2:17Rank 9 from verse 1
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    17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  10. Ecclesiastes 1:13Rank 10 from verse 1
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    13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

From verse 2

  1. Hebrews 9:27Rank 1 from verse 2
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    27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

  2. Job 14:5Rank 2 from verse 2
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    5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  3. Matthew 15:13Rank 3 from verse 2
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    13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

  4. Jeremiah 18:7–10Rank 4 from verse 2
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    7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

    8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

    9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

    10If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

  5. Galatians 4:4Rank 5 from verse 2
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    4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

  6. Isaiah 38:1Rank 6 from verse 2
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    1IN those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

  7. Job 7:1Rank 7 from verse 2
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    1IS there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

  8. John 16:21Rank 8 from verse 2
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    21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

  9. Luke 1:20Rank 9 from verse 2
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    20And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

  10. Acts 7:17Rank 10 from verse 2
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    17But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

  11. Acts 7:20Rank 11 from verse 2
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    20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:

  12. Jeremiah 45:4Rank 12 from verse 2
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    4¶ Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

  13. 1 Kings 13:2Rank 13 from verse 2
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    2And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.

  14. 1 Samuel 2:5Rank 14 from verse 2
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    5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

  15. 2 Kings 4:16Rank 15 from verse 2
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    16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

  16. Deuteronomy 3:23–26Rank 16 from verse 2
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    23And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

    24O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

    25I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

    26But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

  17. Deuteronomy 34:5Rank 17 from verse 2
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    5¶ So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

  18. Genesis 17:21Rank 18 from verse 2
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    21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

  19. Genesis 21:1–2Rank 19 from verse 2
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    1AND the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

    2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  20. Genesis 47:29Rank 20 from verse 2
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    29And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

  21. Isaiah 38:5Rank 21 from verse 2
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    5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

  22. Isaiah 5:2–5Rank 22 from verse 2
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    2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

    3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

    4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

    5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

  23. Isaiah 54:1Rank 23 from verse 2
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    1SING, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

  24. Jeremiah 1:10Rank 24 from verse 2
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    10See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

  25. Job 14:14Rank 25 from verse 2
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    14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  26. John 7:30Rank 26 from verse 2
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    30Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

  27. Luke 1:13Rank 27 from verse 2
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    13But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

  28. Luke 1:36Rank 28 from verse 2
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    36And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

  29. Matthew 13:28–29Rank 29 from verse 2
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    28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

    29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

  30. Matthew 13:41Rank 30 from verse 2
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    41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

  31. Numbers 20:24–28Rank 31 from verse 2
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    24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

    25Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:

    26And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

    27And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

    28And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.

  32. Numbers 27:12–14Rank 32 from verse 2
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    12¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

    13And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

    14For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

  33. Psalms 113:9Rank 33 from verse 2
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    9He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

  34. Psalms 52:5Rank 34 from verse 2
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    5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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season

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Sense 1: An appointed time or period. Sense 2: As a verb, to prepare, mature, or make suitable.

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time

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A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.

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purpose

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Sense 1 (noun): An intention, plan, resolution, or determination; the reason for which something is done, or the object or end intended. Sense 2 (noun): Use, effect, or result, especially in ‘to what purpose’ or ‘to no purpose.’ Sense 3 (in ‘of purpose’): Intentionally. Sense 4 (verb): To intend, resolve, or determine to do or accomplish something.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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heaven

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Sense 1: The firmament or expanse above the earth, including the sky and the region of the sun, moon, stars, clouds, rain, and flying creatures. Sense 2: The realm above spoken of as God's throne and dwelling place, and as the place of angels, heavenly beings, and the righteous. Sense 3: By metonymy, God, heavenly authority or source, or those who dwell there.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Ecclesiastes 3:2

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time

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A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.

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plant

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Sense 1: A living growth springing from the ground. Sense 2: To set or establish growth in soil for cultivation. Sense 3: To establish, settle, or cause to take root and grow.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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2:26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

3:1TO every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

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3:2A 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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3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

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