Ecclesiastes 3:6

Coverdale Bible (1535)

A tyme to wynne, and a tyme to lese: A tyme to spare, and a tyme to spende:

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  • Matt 16:25-26 : 25 For who so wil saue his life, shal lose it: but whoso loseth his life for my sake, shal fynde it. 26 What helpeth it a man though he wanne the whole worlde, and yet suffred harme in his soule? Or what can a man geue, to redeme his soule withall?
  • Mark 8:35-37 : 35 For who so euer wyl saue his life, shal lose it: and who so euer loseth his life for my sake and ye gospels, ye same shal saue it. 36 What helpeth it a ma though he wane the whole worlde, and yet toke harme in his soule? 37 Or, what can a man geue, to redeme his soule withall?
  • Luke 9:24-25 : 24 For who so euer wil saue his life, shal lose it. But who so loseth his life for my sake, shal saue it. 25 For what auauntage hath a man, though he wanne the whole worlde, and loseth himself, or runneth in dammage of himself?
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But the thinges that were vauntage vnto me, haue I counted losse for Christes sake. 8 Yee I thynke all thinges but losse, for that excellent knowleges sake of Christ Iesu my LORDE: for whom I haue counted all thinge losse, and do iudge them but donge, that I mighte wynne Christ,
  • Heb 10:34-35 : 34 For ye haue suffred with my bodes, and toke a worth ye spoylinge of youre goodes, and that with gladnes, knowynge in youre selues, how that ye haue in heauen a better & an enduringe substaunce. 35 Cast not awaye therfore yor confidence, which hath so greate a rewarde.
  • Acts 27:19 : 19 And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe.
  • Mark 10:28-30 : 28 Then sayde Peter vnto him: Beholde, we haue forsaken all, and folowed the. 29 Iesus answered & sayde: Verely I saye vnto you: There is no man that forsaketh house, or brethren, or sisters, or father or mother, or wife, or children, or londes for my sake and the gospels, 30 that shal not receaue an hundreth folde now in this tyme, houses, and brethre, and sisters, and mothers and children, and londes with persecucions, and in the worlde to come euerlastinge life.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 And who so euer forsaketh houses or brethre, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or londes, for my names sake, the same shal receaue an hundreth folde, and inheret euerlastinge life.
  • Gen 30:30-43 : 30 Thou haddest but litle afore I came hither, but now is it growne into a multitude, and the LORDE hath blessed ye for my sake. And now whan shall I loke to myne owne house also? 31 He saide: What shal I then geue the? Iacob sayde: Thou shalt geue me nothinge at all, but yf thou wilt do this for me yt I saye, then wyll I fede and kepe thy shepe agayne. 32 I wyll go thorow all thy flockes to daye, and separate thou from amonge them all the shepe that be spotted and partye coloured, and all blacke shepe amonge the lambes. Now loke what shalbe partie coloured and spotted amoge the kyddes, the same shalbe my rewarde: 33 so shal my righteousnes testifie with me to daye or tomorow, whan it cometh vnto my rewarde before the, so that, what so euer is not spotted and partye coloured amonge the kyddes, and blacke amoge the lambes, let that be theft with me. 34 Then sayde Laban: Beholde, let it be so as thou hast sayde. 35 And that same daye he sundered out the speckled and partye coloured goates, and all the spotted and partye coloured kyddes (where there was eny whyte vpon them) and all that was black amonge the lambes, and put them vnder the hande of his children, 36 and made rowme of thre dayes iourney wyde betwixte him and Iacob. So Iacob kepte the residue of Labans flocke. 37 But Iacob toke staues of grene wyllies, hasell and of chestnottrees, and pylled whyte strekes in them, 38 and layed the staues that he had pylled, in the drynkinge troughes before the flocke, which came there to drynke, that they shulde conceaue, whan they came to drynke. 39 So the flockes conceaued ouer ye staues, and brought forth speckelde, spotted and partye coloured. 40 Then Iacob parted ye lambes, and put them to the flocke vnto the spotted: and all that was blacke in Labans flocke, that put he vnto the spotted. And he made him a flocke of his owne, which he put not vnto Labans flocke. 41 Neuertheles in the first buckynge tyme of the flockes, he layed the staues in the drynkinge troughes before the eyes of the flockes, that they shulde conceaue ouer the staues. 42 But in the latter buckynge tyme he layed them not in. So the later were Labans, but the firstlinges were Iacobs. 43 Thus the man became exceadinge riche, so that he had many shepe, maydens & seruauntes, Camels and Asses.
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 and caried awaye all his catell and all his substaunce, that he had gotten at Mesopotamia, yt he might come vnto Isaac his father in the lande of Canaan.
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 And the children of Israel had done as Moses sayde, and borowed Iewels of syluer and golde, and clothes of the Egipcians: 36 the LORDE also had geuen the people fauoure in the sight of the Egipcians, that they lent them, and so they spoyled the Egipcians.
  • Deut 8:17-18 : 17 and lest thou saye in thine hert: My power and the mighte of myne awne hande hath done me all this good: 18 But that thou thynke vpon the LORDE thy God. For it is HE, which geueth the power to exercyse strength, that he maye perfourme the couenaunt, which he sware vnto thy fathers, as it is come to passe this daye.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 But he sayde vnto him: Wente not my hert wt the, whan the man turned backe from his charet to mete the? Now thou hast take the syluer & the rayment, olyue trees, vynyardes, shepe, oxen, seruauntes & maydens.
  • 2 Kgs 7:15 : 15 And whan they wente after the vnto Iordane, beholde, the waye laye full of garmentes and vessels, which the Syrians had cast from the, whyle they made haist. And whan the messaungers came agayne, and tolde the kynge,
  • 2 Kgs 8:9 : 9 Hasael wente for to mete him, and toke rewardes with him, and of all the goodes at Damasco, as moch as fortye Camels mighte beare. And whan he came, he stode before him, and sayde: Thy sonne Benadab the kynge of Syria hath sent me vnto the, sayenge: Maye I recouer from this siknes?
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He hath sparsed abrode, & geue to the poore, his rightuousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted wt honor.
  • Eccl 11:1 : 1 Sende thy vytayles ouer the waters, and so shalt thou fynde the after many yeares.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 Then, the shal ma cast awaye his goddes of syluer and golde (which he neuertheles had made to honoure the) vnto Molles and Backes:
  • Jonah 1:5 : 5 Then the maryners were afrayde, and cried euery man vnto his god: and the goodes that were in the shippe, they cast in to the see, to lighten it off them. But Ionas gat him vnder ye hatches, where he layed him downe and slombred.
  • Acts 27:38 : 38 And whan they had eaten ynough, they lightened the shippe, and cast out the wheate in to the see.

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  • Eccl 3:1-5
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    1Every thinge hath a tyme, yee all that is vnder the heauen, hath is conuenient season.

    2There is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye. There is a tyme to plate, and a tyme to plucke vp the thinge, yt is planted:

    3A tyme to slaye, and a tyme to make whole: A tyme to breake downe, and a tyme to buylde vp:

    4A tyme to wepe, and a tyme to laugh: A tyme to mourne, and a tyme to daunse:

    5A tyme to cast awaye stones, and a tyme to gather stones together: A tyme to enbrace, & a tyme to refrayne from enbracynge:

  • Eccl 3:7-12
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    7A tyme to cutt in peces, and a tyme to sowe together: A tyme to kepe sylece, and a tyme to speake:

    8A tyme to loue, & a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

    9What hath a ma els (that doth eny thinge) but weerynesse and laboure?

    10For as touchinge the trauayle and carefulnesse which God hath geuen vnto me, I se that he hath geuen it them, to be exercised in it.

    11All this hath he ordened maruelous goodly, to euery thinge his due tyme. He hath plated ignoraunce also in the hertes of men, yt they shulde not fynde out ye grounde of his workes, which he doth from ye beginninge to ye ende.

    12So I perceaued, yt in these thinges there is nothinge better for a man, the to be mery & to do well so longe as he lyueth.

  • Eccl 8:5-6
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    5Who so kepeth the commaundement, shall fele no harme: but a wyse mans herte discerneth tyme and maner:

    6For euery thinge wil haue opportunite and iudgment, and this is the thinge that maketh men full of carefulnes & sorowe.

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    9All these thinges haue I considered, and applied my mynde vnto euery worke that is vnder the Sonne: how one man hath lordshipe vpon another to his owne harme.

  • Eccl 9:10-13
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    10What so euer thou takest in hande to do, that do with all thy power: for amoge the deed (where as thou goest vnto) there is nether worke, councell, knowlege ner wy?dome.

    11So I turned me vnto other thinges vnder ye Sonne, and I sawe, that in runnynge, it helpeth not to be swift: in batayll, it helpeth not to be stronge: to fedynge, it helpeth not to be wyse: to riches, it helpeth not to be sutyll: to be had in fauoure, it helpeth not to be connynge: but that all lyeth in tyme & fortune.

    12For a man knoweth not his tyme, but like as the fyshe are take with the angle, and as the byrdes are catched wt the snare: Eue so are men taken in the perilous tyme, when it commeth sodenly vpon them.

    13This wi?dome haue I sene also vnder ye Sone, & me thought it a greate thinge.

  • Eccl 3:15-17
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    15The thinge yt hath bene, is now: & the thinge yt is for to come, hath bene afore tyme, for God restoreth agayne the thinge that was past.

    16Morouer, I sawe vnder ye Sonne, vngodlynesse in the steade of iudgment, & iniquite in steade of rightuousnesse.

    17Then thought I in my mynde: God shal separate the rightuous from the vngodly, & then shal be the tyme & iudgmet of all councels & workes.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14Vse well the tyme of prosperite, and remembre the tyme of mysfortune: for God maketh the one by the other, so that a man can fynde nothinge els.

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    6Cease not thou therfore with thy handes to sowe thy sede, whether it be in ye mornynge or in the euenynge: for thou knowest not whether this or that shall prospere, & yf they both take, it is the better.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is yet a plage vnder ye Sonne, & it is a generall thinge amonge me:

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?

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    3For what els hath a ma, of all the labor yt he taketh vnder the Sonne?

    4One generacio passeth awaye, another commeth, but the earth abydeth still.

    5The Sone aryseth, the Sonne goeth downe, & returneth to his place, yt he maye there ryse vp agayne.

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Wherfore I perceaue, yt there is nothyinge better for a man, then to be ioyfull in his laboure, for that is his porcion. But who wil brynge him to se the thinge, that shal come after him?

  • Eccl 1:9-10
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    9The thinge yt hath bene, cometh to passe agayne: & ye thinge yt hath bene done, is done agayne, there is no new thinge vnder the Sonne.

    10Is there eny thinge, wherof it maye be sayde: lo, this is new? For it was loge agoo in the tymes yt haue bene before vs.

  • Eccl 12:6-8
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    6Or euer the syluer lace be taken awaye, and or the golden bende be broken: Or the pott be broken at the well, & the whele vpon the Cisterne:

    7Or dust be turned againe vnto earth from whence it came, and or the sprete returne vnto God, which gaue it.

    8All is but vanite (sayeth the preacher) all is but playne vanite.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out. The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God: and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    13applyed my mynde to seke out & search for the knowlege of all thiges yt are done vnder heaue. Soch trauayle & labor hath God geue vnto ye childre of me, to exercyse the selues theri.

    14Thus I haue considered all the thinges that come to passe vnder the Sone, & lo, they are all but vanite & vexacion of mynde.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3Amonge all thinges yt come to passe vnder the Sonne, this is a misery, that it happeneth vnto all alyke. This is the cause also that the hertes of men are full of wickednesse, & madd foolishnesse is in their hertes as longe as they lyue, vntill they dye.

  • Eccl 11:1
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    1Sende thy vytayles ouer the waters, and so shalt thou fynde the after many yeares.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2It is better to go in to an house of mournynge, then in to a bancket house. For there is the ende of all men, and he that is lyuinge, taketh it to herte.

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    20They go all vnto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shal they all turne vnto dust againe.

  • Eccl 2:20-21
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    20So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne:

    21for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16This is a miserable plage, yt he shal go awaye euen as he came. What helpeth it him then, yt he hath labored in the wynde?

  • Eccl 11:9
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    9Be glad then (O thou yonge man) in thy youth, and lat thine hert be mery in thy yonge dayes: folowe the wayes of thine owne hert, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shal bringe the in to iudgment for all these thinges.

  • Eph 5:16
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    16and redeme the tyme, for it is a miserable tyme.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14Yet is there a vanite vpon earth: There be iust men, vnto whom it happeneth, as though they had the workes of the vngodly: Agayne, there be vngodly, with whom it goeth as though they had the workes of ye rightuous. This me thinke also a vaine thinge.