Ecclesiastes 3:1

Ecclesiastes chapter 3 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.1This passage

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

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 7:14
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.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man’s heart discerneth time and judgment:
Proverbs 15:23
A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!
Matthew 16:3
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.