Ecclesiastes 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;

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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

The cities they overturned, and on every good piece of land everyone threw a stone until it was covered; every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. Only at Kir-hareseth did the stone walls remain until the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves; they set large stones against the mouth of the cave that remain to this very day.

Joel 2:16

gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her canopy.

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance;

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;