Ecclesiastes 3:3

New American Bible - revised edition

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Cross References

Genesis 9:6

Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

Isaiah 44:26

I confirm the words of my servant, carry out the plan my messengers announce. I say to Jerusalem, Be inhabited! To the cities of Judah, Be rebuilt! I will raise up their ruins.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people sluggish, dull their ears and close their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and their heart understand, and they turn and be healed.

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 31:28

As I once watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, to destroy, and to harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:6

Look! I am bringing the city recovery and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them an abundance of lasting peace.

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.

Ezekiel 13:14

I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, laying bare its foundations. When it falls, you shall be crushed beneath it. Thus you shall know that I am the Lord.

Haggai 1:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts: This people has said: “Now is not the time to rebuild the house of the Lord.”

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord replied, “Lord of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?”

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, I alone, am he, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand no one can deliver.

1 Samuel 2:25

If someone sins against another, anyone can intercede for the sinner with the Lord; but if anyone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for the sinner?” But they disregarded their father’s warning, since the Lord wanted them dead.

1 Samuel 2:6

“The Lord puts to death and gives life, casts down to Sheol and brings up again.