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Ecclesiastes Chapter 3

Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes

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Ecclesiastes 3 declares that to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven—a time to be born and to die, to plant and pluck up, to kill and heal, to weep and laugh, to mourn and dance, to keep and cast away, to love and hate, and a time of peace. The Preacher observes that God has made everything beautiful in its time and has set eternity in the human heart, yet no one can find out the work God does from beginning to end. He concludes that there is nothing better than to rejoice and do good in one's labor, and that God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for all return to dust and the spirit returns to God.

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(1) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
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Ecclesiastes 3:17Ecclesiastes 7:14Ecclesiastes 8:5Ecclesiastes 8:6II Kings 5:26II Chronicles 33:12Proverbs 15:23Matthew 16:3Ecclesiastes 1:13Ecclesiastes 2:3Ecclesiastes 2:17

(2) 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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Genesis 17:21Genesis 21:1Genesis 21:2I Samuel 2:5I Kings 13:2II Kings 4:16Psalms 113:9Isaiah 54:1Luke 1:13Luke 1:20Luke 1:36John 16:21

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(3) A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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Deuteronomy 32:39I Samuel 2:6I Samuel 2:25Hosea 6:1Hosea 6:2Numbers 26:6Numbers 26:7Numbers 26:8Numbers 26:9Isaiah 38:5Isaiah 38:6Isaiah 38:7

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Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23

(4) A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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Nehemiah 8:9Nehemiah 8:10Nehemiah 8:11Nehemiah 8:12Nehemiah 9:1Nehemiah 9:2Nehemiah 9:3Nehemiah 9:4Nehemiah 9:5Nehemiah 9:6Nehemiah 9:7Nehemiah 9:8

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Luke 6:25Ezekiel 24:23

(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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Joshua 4:3Joshua 4:4Joshua 4:5Joshua 4:6Joshua 4:7Joshua 4:8Joshua 4:9Joshua 10:27II Samuel 18:17II Samuel 18:18II Kings 3:25Exodus 19:15

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10I Kings 5:17Genesis 31:46Exodus 25:7Exodus 28:12

(6) A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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Genesis 30:30Genesis 30:31Genesis 30:32Genesis 30:33Genesis 30:34Genesis 30:35Genesis 30:36Genesis 30:37Genesis 30:38Genesis 30:39Genesis 30:40Genesis 30:41

(7) A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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Genesis 37:29Genesis 37:34II Samuel 1:11II Samuel 3:31I Kings 21:27II Kings 5:7II Kings 6:30Jeremiah 36:24Joel 2:13Acts 9:39Job 2:13Psalms 39:2

(8) A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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Ezekiel 16:8Psalms 139:21Ephesians 3:19Ephesians 5:25Ephesians 5:28Ephesians 5:29Titus 2:4II Chronicles 19:2Luke 14:26Revelation 2:2Genesis 14:14Genesis 14:15

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Luke 6:32Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18

(9) What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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Ecclesiastes 1:3Ecclesiastes 2:11Ecclesiastes 2:22Ecclesiastes 2:23Ecclesiastes 5:16Proverbs 14:23Matthew 16:26

(10) I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
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Ecclesiastes 1:13Ecclesiastes 1:14Ecclesiastes 2:26Genesis 3:19I Thessalonians 2:9II Thessalonians 3:8

(11) He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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Ecclesiastes 7:29Genesis 1:31Deuteronomy 32:4Mark 7:37Matthew 13:22Romans 1:19Romans 1:20Romans 1:28Ecclesiastes 8:17Job 11:7Job 37:23Psalms 104:24

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John 15:19II Peter 2:20John 13:1Hebrews 9:26Ecclesiastes 8:17John 1:10

(12) I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
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Ecclesiastes 3:22Ecclesiastes 9:7Ecclesiastes 9:8Ecclesiastes 9:9Deuteronomy 28:63Psalms 37:3Isaiah 64:5Luke 11:41Acts 20:35Philippians 4:4Philippians 4:5Philippians 4:6

(13) And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 5:18Ecclesiastes 5:19Ecclesiastes 5:20Ecclesiastes 6:2Ecclesiastes 9:7Deuteronomy 28:30Deuteronomy 28:31Deuteronomy 28:47Deuteronomy 28:48Judges 6:3Judges 6:4

(14) I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
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Psalms 33:11Psalms 119:90Psalms 119:91Isaiah 46:10Daniel 4:34Daniel 4:35Acts 2:23Acts 4:28Romans 11:36Ephesians 3:11Titus 1:2James 1:17

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Philippians 4:8John 5:19Ezekiel 18:24I Corinthians 7:38III John 1:11Leviticus 11:42

(15) That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9Ecclesiastes 1:10

(16) And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1Ecclesiastes 5:8I Kings 21:9I Kings 21:10I Kings 21:11I Kings 21:12I Kings 21:13I Kings 21:14I Kings 21:15I Kings 21:16I Kings 21:17I Kings 21:18

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Jeremiah 44:9Ezekiel 18:20Ezekiel 33:12I Kings 2:44Psalms 69:27Psalms 99:4

(17) I 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.
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Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 2:1Ecclesiastes 12:14Genesis 18:25Psalms 98:9Matthew 16:27Matthew 25:31Matthew 25:32Matthew 25:33Matthew 25:34Matthew 25:35Matthew 25:36

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Genesis 18:25Matthew 10:41John 7:24

(18) I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
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Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Genesis 3:19Job 14:1Job 14:2Job 14:3Job 14:4Job 15:16Psalms 49:14Psalms 49:19Psalms 49:20Psalms 73:18

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Ezekiel 16:55

(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 a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 2:16Psalms 49:12Psalms 49:20Psalms 92:6Psalms 92:7II Samuel 14:14Job 14:10Job 14:11Job 14:12Psalms 104:29Ecclesiastes 2:20Ecclesiastes 2:21

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Leviticus 7:24Revelation 4:7I Kings 14:11I Kings 16:4I Kings 21:24Genesis 3:14

(20) All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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Ecclesiastes 3:21Ecclesiastes 6:6Ecclesiastes 9:10Genesis 25:8Genesis 25:17Numbers 27:13Job 7:9Job 17:13Job 30:24Psalms 49:14Genesis 3:19Job 10:9

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Genesis 3:19Genesis 13:16Exodus 8:17Deuteronomy 9:21Isaiah 29:4Job 34:15

(21) Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
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Ecclesiastes 12:7Luke 16:22Luke 16:23John 14:3Acts 1:25II Corinthians 5:1II Corinthians 5:8Philippians 1:23

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Revelation 4:7Leviticus 11:42Joshua 19:12Proverbs 7:22Leviticus 24:18Isaiah 63:14

(22) Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
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Ecclesiastes 3:11Ecclesiastes 3:12Ecclesiastes 2:10Ecclesiastes 2:11Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 5:18Ecclesiastes 5:19Ecclesiastes 5:20Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 9:7Ecclesiastes 9:8Ecclesiastes 9:9

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Ezekiel 45:7Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

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