Ecclesiastes 3:2

New Living Translation

A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest.

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year.”

Genesis 47:29

As the time of his death drew near, Jacob called for his son Joseph and said to him, “Please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me with unfailing love by honoring this last request: Do not bury me in Egypt.

1 Kings 13:2

Then at the Lord’s command, he shouted, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says: A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you.”

2 Kings 4:16

“Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!” “No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”

Job 14:14

Can the dead live again? If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle, and I would eagerly await the release of death.

Job 14:5

You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer.

Job 7:1

“Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,

Psalm 113:9

He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 52:5

But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude

Proverbs 24:27

Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.

Isaiah 28:24

Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?

Isaiah 38:1

About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: “This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.’”

Isaiah 38:5

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

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O childless woman, you who have never given birth! Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem, you who have never been in labor. For the desolate woman now has more children than the woman who lives with her husband,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

Today I appoint you to stand up against nations and kingdoms. Some you must uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow. Others you must build up and plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

“Baruch, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Matthew 15:13

Jesus replied, “Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be uprooted,

Luke 1:13

But the angel said, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife, Elizabeth, will give you a son, and you are to name him John.

Luke 1:20

But now, since you didn’t believe what I said, you will be silent and unable to speak until the child is born. For my words will certainly be fulfilled at the proper time.”

Luke 1:36

What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month.

John 16:21

It will be like a woman suffering the pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish gives way to joy because she has brought a new baby into the world.

John 7:30

Then the leaders tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

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

Acts 7:20

“At that time Moses was born—a beautiful child in God’s eyes. His parents cared for him at home for three months.

Galatians 4:4

But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.

Deuteronomy 34:5

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

Hebrews 9:27

And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were well fed are now starving, and those who were starving are now full. The childless woman now has seven children, and the woman with many children wastes away.