Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under he…”

Ecclesiastes 3:1

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

World English Bible

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

American Standard Version

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Geneva Bible 1599

To all things there is an appointed time, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.

Darby Translation

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:

Young's Literal Translation

To everything — a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

Bible in Basic English

For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

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Cross references

“every thing”

Ecclesiastes 3:17 Matthew 16:3 Ecclesiastes 7:14 2 Kings 5:26 Proverbs 15:23 2 Chronicles 33:12

Ecclesiastes 3:17 · BSB

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

Matthew 16:3 · BSB

and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 · BSB

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

2 Kings 5:26 · BSB

But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and mai…

Proverbs 15:23 · BSB

A man takes joy in a fitting reply— and how good is a timely word!

2 Chronicles 33:12 · BSB

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

“under”

Ecclesiastes 2:3 Ecclesiastes 2:17 Ecclesiastes 1:13

Ecclesiastes 2:3 · BSB

I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 · BSB

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:13 · BSB

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

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