Ecclesiastes 3:2

New American Bible - revised edition

A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you by this time next year.

Genesis 47:29

When the time approached for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him: “If it pleases you, put your hand under my thigh as a sign of your enduring fidelity to me; do not bury me in Egypt.

1 Kings 13:2

He cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: “Altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, who shall slaughter upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and they shall burn human bones upon you.”

2 Kings 4:16

Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be cradling a baby son.” She said, “My lord, you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant.”

Job 14:14

If a man were to die, and live again, all the days of my drudgery I would wait for my relief to come.

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined— you know the number of his months; you have fixed the limit which he cannot pass—

Job 7:1

Is not life on earth a drudgery, its days like those of a hireling?

Psalm 113:9

Gives the childless wife a home, the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!

Psalm 52:5

You love evil more than good, lying rather than saying what is right. Selah

Proverbs 24:27

Complete your outdoor tasks, and arrange your work in the field; afterward you can build your house.

Isaiah 28:24

Is the plowman forever plowing in order to sow, always loosening and harrowing the field?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days, when Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not recover.”

Isaiah 38:5

Go, tell Hezekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Now I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 54:1

Raise a glad cry, you barren one who never bore a child, break forth in jubilant song, you who have never been in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

Today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, To uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.

Jeremiah 45:4

You must say this to him. Thus says the Lord: What I have built, I am tearing down; what I have planted, I am uprooting: all this land.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.

Matthew 15:13

He said in reply, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John.

Luke 1:20

But now you will be speechless and unable to talk until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

Luke 1:36

And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

John 7:30

So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“When the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God pledged to Abraham, the people had increased and become very numerous in Egypt,

Acts 7:20

At this time Moses was born, and he was extremely beautiful. For three months he was nursed in his father’s house;

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Deuteronomy 34:5

So there, in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of the Lord, died as the Lord had said;

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

The well-fed hire themselves out for bread, while the hungry no longer have to toil. The barren wife bears seven sons, while the mother of many languishes.