Ecclesiastes 3:2

New International Version

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

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

Genesis 47:29

When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

1 Kings 13:2

By the word of the Lord he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the Lord says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.’ ”

2 Kings 4:16

“About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!”

Job 14:14

If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

Job 14:5

A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

Job 7:1

“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

Psalm 113:9

He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord.

Psalm 52:5

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.

Proverbs 24:27

Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.

Isaiah 28:24

When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

But the Lord has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Matthew 15:13

He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

Luke 1:13

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

Luke 1:20

And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”

Luke 1:36

Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.

John 16:21

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

John 7:30

At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.

Acts 7:20

“At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family.

Galatians 4:4

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

Deuteronomy 34:5

And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.