Ecclesiastes 3:1
Everything has its own time—a time for all that happens here:
Free Bible 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 of birth, and a time of death. A time of planting, and a time of harvest.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12In his misery, he asked the Lord God for help, repenting for his arrogance before the God of his forefathers.
Proverbs 24:27Do the work you need to do outside first, then prepare and sow your fields, and only after that start building your house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3Then I used my mind to examine the attraction of wine to my body. My mind still guiding me with wisdom, I took it until I acted like a fool, so that I might see whether this was good for people to do during their time here.
Ecclesiastes 3:17But then I thought to myself, “Ultimately God will judge both those who do right and those who do wrong, and every deed and action, at the appointed time.”
Ecclesiastes 8:5Those who follow his commands will not be involved in doing evil. Wise people think, recognizing there's a right time, and a right way.
Jeremiah 46:17When they get there they'll say about Pharaoh king of Egypt, “He just makes a lot of noise. He wasted his opportunity.”
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 →