Ecclesiastes 3:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

There is a time for birth and death, planting and reaping,

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But your son Isaac will be born about this time next year, and the promise I am making to you and your family will be for him and his descendants for ever.

Genesis 47:29

When Jacob knew he did not have long to live, he called in Joseph and said, “If you really love me, you must make a solemn promise not to bury me in Egypt.

2 Kings 4:16

Elisha said to her, “Next year at this time, you'll be holding your own baby son in your arms.” “You're a man of God,” the woman replied. “Please don't lie to me.”

Job 14:14

Will we humans live again? I would gladly suffer and wait for my time.

Job 14:5

Our time on earth is brief; the number of our days is already decided by you.

Job 7:1

Why is life so hard? Why do we suffer?

Psalm 113:9

When a wife has no children, he blesses her with some, and she is happy. Shout praises to the LORD!

Psalm 52:5

God will destroy you for ever! He will grab you and drag you from your homes. You will be uprooted and left to die.

Proverbs 24:27

Get your fields ready and plant your crops before setting up home.

Isaiah 28:24

Farmers don't just plough and break up the ground.

Isaiah 38:1

About this time, Hezekiah got sick and was almost dead. So I went in and told him, “The LORD says you won't ever get well. You are going to die, and so you had better start doing what needs to be done.”

Isaiah 38:5

with this message for Hezekiah: I am the LORD God, who was worshipped by your ancestor David. I heard you pray, and I saw you cry. I will let you live fifteen years more,

Isaiah 54:1

Sing and shout, even though you have never had children! The LORD has promised that you will have more children than someone married for a long time.

Jeremiah 1:10

and I am sending you with authority to speak to the nations for me. You will tell them of doom and destruction, and of rising and rebuilding again.”

Jeremiah 45:4

But all over the earth I am tearing down what I built and pulling up what I planted.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everyone who does wrong or causes others to sin.

Matthew 15:13

Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.

Luke 1:13

But the angel told him: Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayers. Your wife Elizabeth will have a son, and you must name him John.

Luke 1:20

You have not believed what I have said. So you will not be able to say a thing until all this happens. But everything will take place when it is supposed to.”

Luke 1:36

Your relative Elizabeth is also going to have a son, even though she is old. No one thought she could ever have a baby, but in three months she will have a son.

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth, she is in great pain. But after it is all over, she forgets the pain and is happy, because she has brought a child into the world.

John 7:30

Some of the people wanted to arrest Jesus there and then. But no one even laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

Finally, the time came for God to do what he had promised Abraham. By then the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.

Acts 7:20

During this time Moses was born. He was a very beautiful child, and for three months his parents took care of him in their home.

Galatians 4:4

But when the time was right, God sent his Son, and a woman gave birth to him. His Son obeyed the Law,

Deuteronomy 34:5

And so, Moses the LORD's servant died there in Moab, just as the LORD had said.

Hebrews 9:27

We die only once, and then we are judged.

1 Samuel 2:5

People who once had plenty to eat must now hire themselves out for only a piece of bread. But you give the hungry more than enough to eat. A woman did not have a child, and you gave her seven, but a woman who had many was left with none.