Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha)
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
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a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
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a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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What gain has the worker from his toil?
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I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
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He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
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I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
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also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.
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I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.
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That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha)
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