Ecclesiastes 3:1
All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
In Context
2A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pull up what was planted.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And after this, being in great anguish, he prayed to the Lord his God. And he did penance greatly before the God of his fathers.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare your outdoor work, and diligently cultivate your field, so that afterward, you may build your house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I decided in my heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, so that I might bring my mind to wisdom, and turn away from foolishness, until I see what is useful for the sons of men, and what they ought to do under the sun, during the number of the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:17And I said in my heart: “God will judge the just and the impious, and then the time for each matter shall be.”
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoever keeps the commandment will not experience evil. The heart of a wise man understands the time to respond.
Jeremiah 46:17Call the name of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt: ‘Time has brought tumult.’
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:1
Solomon having shown the vanity of studies, pleasures, and business, and made it to appear that happiness is not to be found in the schools of the learned, nor in the gardens of Epicurus, nor upon the exchange, he proceeds, in this chapter, further to prove his doctrine, and the inference he had drawn from it, That therefore we should cheerfully content ourselves with, and make use of, what God has given us, by showing, I. The mutability of all human affairs, ver. 1-10 . II. The immutability of the divine counsels… Read the whole commentary →