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Ecclesiastes 3:3

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

A time {H6256} to kill {H2026}, and a time {H6256} to heal {H7495}; a time {H6256} to break down {H6555}, and a time {H6256} to build up {H1129};

a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,

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

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Cross-References

  • Hosea 6:1 (16 votes)

    ¶ Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

  • Hosea 6:2 (16 votes)

    After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

  • 1 Samuel 2:6 (13 votes)

    The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

  • Jeremiah 45:4 (12 votes)

    Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, [that] which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

  • Jeremiah 31:28 (10 votes)

    And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

  • Deuteronomy 32:39 (9 votes)

    ¶ See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.

  • Daniel 9:25 (5 votes)

    Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.