Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
World English Bible Catholic
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 pluck up that which is planted;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I 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.”
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
Jeremiah 46:17They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’
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 →