Ecclesiastes 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ A time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Common English Bible

⁶ a time for searching and a time for losing, a time for keeping and a time for throwing away,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

Ecclesiastes 3:6 Cross References

Acts 27:19

and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship’s tackle overboard.

Acts 27:38

After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Ecclesiastes 11:1

Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.

Psalm 112:9

They have distributed freely; they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.

2 Kings 5:26

But he said to him, “Did I not go with you in spirit when someone left his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to accept silver and to accept clothing, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?

Jonah 1:5

Then the sailors were afraid, and each cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,

2 Kings 8:9

So Hazael went to meet him, taking a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he entered and stood before him, he said, “Your son King Ben-hadad of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this illness?’ ”

2 Kings 7:15

So they went after them as far as the Jordan; the whole way was littered with garments and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king.

Genesis 31:18

and he drove away all his livestock, all the property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Ecclesiastes 3:5

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

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak;