Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 2 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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,

American Standard Version (1901)

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;

Common English Bible

⁵ a time for throwing stones and a time for gathering stones, a time for embracing and a time for avoiding embraces,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

Ecclesiastes 3:5 Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.

Exodus 19:15

8 And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

1 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

3 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

Joel 2:16

4 And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.

1 Corinthians 7:5

4 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy.

Joshua 10:27

2 And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he took it the following day, and put it to the sword, and every soul that was in it, as he had done to Lebna.