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Ecclesiastes 3:2–3

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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;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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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.

From verse 3

  1. Hosea 6:1–2Rank 1 from verse 3
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    1COME, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

    2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

  2. 1 Samuel 2:6Rank 2 from verse 3
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    6The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

  3. Jeremiah 45:4Rank 3 from verse 3
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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.

  4. Jeremiah 31:28Rank 4 from verse 3
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    28And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

  5. Deuteronomy 32:39Rank 5 from verse 3
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    39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

  6. Isaiah 44:26Rank 6 from verse 3
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    26That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

  7. Isaiah 5:5–6Rank 7 from verse 3
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    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:

    6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

  8. 1 Samuel 2:25Rank 8 from verse 3
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    25If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

  9. Daniel 9:25–27Rank 9 from verse 3
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    25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

    26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

    27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

  10. Isaiah 38:5–20Rank 10 from verse 3
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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.

    6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

    7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken;

    8Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

    9¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

    10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

    12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

    15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

    16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

    17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

    18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

    19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

    20The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

  11. Jeremiah 33:6Rank 11 from verse 3
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    6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

  12. Ezekiel 13:14Rank 12 from verse 3
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    14So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  13. Acts 5:15–16Rank 13 from verse 3
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    15Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

    16There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

  14. Numbers 26:6–9Rank 14 from verse 3
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    6Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

    7These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

    8And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.

    9And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the Lord:

  15. Luke 9:54–56Rank 15 from verse 3
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    54And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

    55But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

    56For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

  16. Zechariah 1:12Rank 16 from verse 3
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    12¶ Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

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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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Ecclesiastes 3:3

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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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heal

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Sense 1: To cure disease or injury and restore to soundness. Sense 2: Figuratively, to restore, forgive, or remedy spiritual or national disorder.

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break

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1. To separate, fracture, burst, or open. 2. To interrupt or violate. 3. To subdue. 4. To burst forth.

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

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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3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

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