Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the 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 mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Matthew 16:3

And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the heaven is red and lowring. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath even made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out any thing that shall be after him.

2 Kings 5:26

And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and menservants and maidservants?

Proverbs 15:23

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth: And a word in due season, how good is it!

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in mine heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, mine heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me: for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thine house.

Jeremiah 46:17

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.