Ecclesiastes 3:1; Ecclesiastes 3:2; Ecclesiastes 3:3; Ecclesiastes 3:4; Ecclesiastes 3:5; Ecclesiastes 3:6; Ecclesiastes 3:7; Ecclesiastes 3:8; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ecclesiastes 3:17; Ecclesiastes 7:17; Ecclesiastes 8:5; Ecclesiastes 8:6; Ecclesiastes 9:8; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Ecclesiastes 10:17

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Ecclesiastes 3:1

1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
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Ecclesiastes 3:2

2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
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Ecclesiastes 3:3

3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
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Ecclesiastes 3:4

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
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Ecclesiastes 3:5

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
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Ecclesiastes 3:6

6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
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Ecclesiastes 3:7

7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
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Ecclesiastes 3:8

8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
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Ecclesiastes 3:11

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
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Ecclesiastes 3:17

17 I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:17

17 Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?
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Ecclesiastes 8:5

5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
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Ecclesiastes 8:6

6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.
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Ecclesiastes 9:8

8 Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.
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Ecclesiastes 9:11

11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
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Ecclesiastes 9:12

12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
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Ecclesiastes 10:17

17 Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.
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