Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven:

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Common English Bible

¹ There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

Matthew 16:3

And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

2 Kings 5:26

But he said to him, “Did I not go with you in spirit when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?

Proverbs 15:23

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

Jeremiah 46:17

Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’