Ecclesiastes 3:4

A Conservative Version

a time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,

Cross References

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

James 4:9

Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.

Psalm 30:5

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy [is] in the morning.

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.

Luke 1:58

And her neighbors and her kinfolk heard that Lord magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Matthew 11:17

and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not beat the breast.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, The sons of the wedding hall cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

2 Samuel 6:16

And it was so, as the ark of LORD came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.

Psalm 30:11

Thou have turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness,

Ecclesiastes 3:5

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider. Yea, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins.