Ecclesiastes 3:2

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

Cross References (34)

  • Hebrews 9:27 (13)

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  • Job 14:5 (11)

    Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exc

  • Matthew 15:13 (8)

    But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

  • Jeremiah 18:7–10 (7)

    At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

  • Isaiah 38:1 (6)

    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD

  • Job 7:1 (6)

    “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

  • John 16:21 (6)

    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish b

  • Galatians 4:4 (6)

    But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

  • Luke 1:20 (6)

    And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, w

  • Acts 7:17 (4)

    As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.

  • Jeremiah 45:4 (4)

    Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built a

  • Acts 7:20 (4)

    At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s

  • 1 Samuel 2:5 (3)

    The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but s

  • Deuteronomy 3:23–26 (3)

    At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

  • Genesis 17:21 (3)

    But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

  • Genesis 47:29 (3)

    When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes

  • Matthew 13:28–29 (3)

    ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

  • Job 14:14 (3)

    When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

  • Isaiah 54:1 (3)

    “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed;

  • 1 Kings 13:2 (3)

    And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named

  • 2 Kings 4:16 (3)

    And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to

  • Isaiah 38:5 (3)

    “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have

  • Matthew 13:41 (3)

    The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice l

  • Luke 1:36 (3)

    Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth mon

  • Genesis 21:1–2 (3)

    Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

  • Isaiah 5:2–5 (3)

    He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a wine

  • Jeremiah 1:10 (3)

    See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build an

  • Numbers 27:12–14 (3)

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

  • Psalms 113:9 (3)

    He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

  • Psalms 52:5 (3)

    Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will upro

  • Luke 1:13 (3)

    But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will be

  • Deuteronomy 34:5 (3)

    So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.

  • John 7:30 (3)

    So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

  • Numbers 20:24–28 (3)

    “Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you