Ecclesiastes 3

1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:Cross-references: 2Ki 5:26 · 2Chr 33:12 · Prov 15:23 · Eccl 1:13 · Eccl 2:3 · Eccl 2:17 · +4 more

2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;Cross-references: Gen 17:21 · Gen 21:1 · Gen 47:29 · Num 20:24 · Num 27:12 · Deut 3:23 · +28 more

3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;Cross-references: Num 26:6 · Deut 32:39 · 1Sam 2:6 · 1Sam 2:25 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 38:5 · +10 more

4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;Cross-references: Gen 21:6 · Ex 15:20 · 2Sam 6:16 · Neh 8:9 · Neh 9:1 · Ps 30:5 · +12 more

5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;Cross-references: Ex 19:15 · Josh 4:3 · Josh 10:27 · 1Sam 21:4 · 2Sam 18:17 · 2Ki 3:25 · +3 more

6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;Cross-references: Gen 30:30 · Gen 31:18 · Ex 12:35 · Deut 8:17 · 2Ki 5:26 · 2Ki 7:15 · +14 more

7a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Gen 37:34 · Gen 44:18 · Gen 44:34 · 1Sam 19:4 · 1Sam 25:24 · +23 more

8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.Cross-references: Gen 14:14 · Josh 8:1 · Josh 11:23 · 2Sam 10:6 · 1Ki 5:4 · 2Chr 19:2 · +9 more

9What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?Cross-references: Prov 14:23 · Eccl 1:3 · Eccl 2:11 · Eccl 2:22 · Eccl 5:16 · Matt 16:26

10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Eccl 1:13 · Eccl 2:26 · 1Thess 2:9 · 2Thess 3:8

11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.Cross-references: Gen 1:31 · Deut 32:4 · Job 5:9 · Job 11:7 · Job 37:23 · Ps 104:24 · +8 more

12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.Cross-references: Deut 28:63 · Ps 37:3 · Eccl 3:22 · Eccl 9:7 · Isa 64:5 · Luke 11:41 · +4 more

13Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Deut 28:47 · Judg 6:3 · Ps 128:2 · Eccl 2:24 · Eccl 5:18 · +3 more

14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.Cross-references: Ps 33:11 · Ps 64:9 · Ps 76:10 · Ps 119:90 · Prov 19:21 · Prov 21:30 · +20 more

15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.Cross-references: Eccl 1:9 · Eccl 6:10

16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:9 · Ps 58:1 · Ps 82:2 · Ps 94:21 · Eccl 4:1 · Eccl 5:8 · +7 more

17I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Ps 98:9 · Eccl 1:16 · Eccl 2:1 · Eccl 3:1 · Eccl 8:6 · +25 more

18I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.Cross-references: Gen 3:17 · Job 14:1 · Job 15:16 · Job 40:8 · Ps 49:12 · Ps 49:14 · +10 more

19For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.Cross-references: 2Sam 14:14 · Job 14:10 · Ps 39:5 · Ps 49:12 · Ps 49:20 · Ps 89:47 · +5 more

20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 25:8 · Gen 25:17 · Num 27:13 · Job 7:9 · Job 10:9 · +10 more

21Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”Cross-references: Eccl 12:7 · Luke 16:22 · John 14:3 · Acts 1:25 · 2Cor 5:1 · 2Cor 5:8 · +1 more

22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:18 · Deut 26:10 · Deut 28:47 · Job 14:21 · Eccl 2:10 · +15 more