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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
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There is a time(a) for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
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Ecclesiastes 3:2
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a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,(b)
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Ecclesiastes 3:3
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a time to kill(c) and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
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Ecclesiastes 3:4
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a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Ecclesiastes 3:5
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a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
Ecclesiastes 3:6
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a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
Ecclesiastes 3:7
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a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent(d) and a time to speak,
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Ecclesiastes 3:8
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a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:9
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What do workers gain from their toil?(e)
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Ecclesiastes 3:10
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I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(f)
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
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He has made everything beautiful in its time.(g) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom(h) what God has done from beginning to end.(i)
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Ecclesiastes 3:12
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I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
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That each of them may eat and drink,(j) and find satisfaction(k) in all their toil—this is the gift of God.(l)
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Ecclesiastes 3:14
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I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.(m)
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
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Whatever is has already been,(n) and what will be has been before;(o) and God will call the past to account.[b]
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