Ecclesiastes 3:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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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  • 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth [only] they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
  • Joel 2:16 : 16 gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
  • Song 2:6-7 : 6 His left hand [is] under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me. 7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, Until he please.
  • Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.
  • Josh 4:3-9 : 3 and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 5 and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; 6 that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? 7 then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. 8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
  • Josh 10:27 : 27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.
  • 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women. 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?
  • 2 Sam 18:17-18 : 17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every one to his tent. 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.

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    6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

    7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

    8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

    9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

    10 I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    11 He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

    12 I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

  • Eccl 3:1-4
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    1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

    2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

    3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

    4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

  • Eccl 8:5-6
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    5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment:

    6 for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

  • Eccl 3:15-17
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    15 That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

    16 And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

    17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

    3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

    4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything [that shall be] after him.

  • Eccl 11:9-10
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    9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

    10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

  • Eccl 4:9-11
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    9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

    10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

    11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone] ?

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 9:10-12
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    10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

    11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

    12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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    20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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    6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

  • Amos 5:13
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    13 Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

  • Job 3:22
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    22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

  • Jas 4:9
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    9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

  • Eccl 12:6
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    6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4 Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Hab 2:11
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    11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

  • Eccl 1:9
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    9 That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Job 3:14
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    14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

  • Eccl 2:24
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    24 There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

  • Prov 25:20
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    20 [ As] one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

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