Ecclesiastes 3:2

A Conservative Version

a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted,

Cross References

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law,

Luke 1:20

And behold, thou will be mute, and not able to speak until that day these things will come to pass, because thou did not believed my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.

Matthew 15:13

But having answered, he said, Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant, will be uprooted.

John 16:21

When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shall die, and not live.

Job 7:1

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Acts 7:20

During which time Moses was born (and he was well-formed by God) who was reared three months in his father's house.

Acts 7:17

But as the time of the promise approached that God swore to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

John 7:30

They sought therefore to seize him, and yet no man laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Luke 1:36

And behold, Elizabeth thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Luke 1:13

But the agent said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy plea was heard, and thy wife Elizabeth will bear a son for thee. And thou shall call his name John.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of man will send forth his agents, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus thou shall say to him, Thus says LORD: Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, and this in the whole land.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

Isaiah 54:1

Sing, O barren, thou who did not bear. Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou who did not travail with child. For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says LORD.

Isaiah 38:5

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

Psalm 113:9

He makes the barren woman to keep house, a joyful mother of sons. Praise ye LORD.

Psalm 52:5

God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

2 Kings 4:16

And he said, At this season, when the time comes round, thou shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

1 Kings 13:2

And he cried against the altar by the word of LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus says LORD: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. And upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that b

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yea, the barren has borne seven, and she who has many sons languishes.

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of LORD.

Genesis 47:29

And the time drew near that Israel must die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Bury me not, I pray t

Genesis 17:21

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year.

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare thy work outside, and make it ready for thee in the field, and afterwards build thy house.

Isaiah 28:24

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?