Ecclesiastes 3:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.”

Genesis 47:29

When the time of Israel’s death drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor with you, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.

1 Kings 13:2

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.”

2 Kings 4:16

He said, “At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son.” She replied, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant.”

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

Job 14:5

Since their days are determined, and the number of their months is known to you, and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,

Job 7:1

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

Psalm 113:9

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 52:5

But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

Isaiah 28:24

Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.”

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 54:1

Shout for joy, O barren one who has borne no children; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman will be more than the children of the one who is married, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: I am going to break down what I have built and pluck up what I have planted—that is, the whole land.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,

Matthew 15:13

He answered, “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, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

Luke 1:20

But now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, you will become mute, unable to speak, until the day these things occur.”

Luke 1:36

And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

John 7:30

Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“But as the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased and multiplied

Acts 7:20

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. For three months he was brought up 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

Then Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, at the Lord’s command.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are fat with spoil. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.