Verse 1

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

Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
  • Eccl 8:5-6 : 5 Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision. 6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
  • 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
  • Matt 16:3 : 3 And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.