Ecclesiastes 3:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak;

Cross References

Micah 7:5

Do not rely on a friend; don’t trust in a close companion. Seal your mouth from the woman who lies in your arms.

Amos 5:13

Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent  , at such a time, for the days are evil.

Acts 4:20

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.’

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and be silent, for God has disciplined   him.

Joel 2:13

Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the  Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.

Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold  to destruction, death, and annihilation.  If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,  I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.’

Amos 8:3

In that day the temple  songs  will become wailing’   #– #this is the Lord God’s declaration. ‘Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!  Silence! ’

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we just sitting here? Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has destroyed   us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the  Lord.

Isaiah 36:21

But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, ‘Don’t answer him.’

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the woman’s words he tore his clothes.  Then, as he was passing by on the wall, the people saw that there was sackcloth  under his clothes next to his skin.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes  and asked, ‘Am I God,  killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Recognise  that he is only picking a fight with me.’

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth  and walked around subdued.

2 Samuel 3:31

David then ordered Joab and all the people who were with him, ‘Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth,  and mourn over Abner.’ And King David walked behind the coffin.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them,  and all the men with him did the same.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.’

Genesis 44:18

But Judah approached him and said, ‘My lord, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth round his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.

Genesis 37:29

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

Acts 9:39

Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Jeremiah 36:24

As they heard all these words, the king and all his servants did not become terrified  or tear their clothes.

Job 2:13

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights,  but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering  was very intense.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to search and a time to count as lost; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

1 Samuel 10:16

Saul told him, ‘He assured us the donkeys had been found.’ However, Saul did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.

2 Kings 18:36

But the people kept silent; they did not answer him at all, for the king’s command was, ‘Don’t answer him.’