Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Webster Bible
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 33:12And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
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 8:5He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Jeremiah 46:17They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
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 →