Ecclesiastes 3:3

A Conservative Version

a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up,

Cross References

1 Samuel 2:6

LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

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 31:28

And it shall come to pass that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Isaiah 44:26

who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited, and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it,

1 Samuel 2:25

If one man sins against another, God shall judge him, but if a man sins against LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they did not hearken to the voice of their father, because LORD intended to kill them.

Ezekiel 13:14

So I will break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered. And it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst of it. And ye

Jeremiah 33:6

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the agent of LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou have had indignation these seventy years?

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and be healed.

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.

Haggai 1:2

Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for LORD's house to be built.

Haggai 1:4

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?