Ecclesiastes 3:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Genesis 47:29

And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, 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 the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and he shall sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned upon you.’ ”

2 Kings 4:16

And he said, “At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant.”

Job 14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

Job 7:1

“Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

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 for ever; 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

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? does he continually open and harrow his ground?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the 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 David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in travail! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her that is married, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.

Matthew 13:41

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

Matthew 15:13

He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:20

And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things come to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”

Luke 1:36

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

John 16:21

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

John 7:30

So they sought to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

Acts 7:20

At this time Moses was born, and was beautiful before God. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house;

Galatians 4:4

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

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord,

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.