A Time for Everything

There is a time(A) for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

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    a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,(A)

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    a time to kill(A) and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,

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

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    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

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For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,(A)
    though a person may be weighed down by misery.

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    a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent(A) and a time to speak,

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12 But the witless can no more become wise
    than a wild donkey’s colt(A) can be born human.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:12 Or wild donkey can be born tame

David’s Charge to Solomon(A)

When the time drew near for David to die,(B) he gave a charge to Solomon his son.

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20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[a] to plant a vineyard.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:20 Or soil, was the first

15 Then another angel came out of the temple(A) and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle(B) and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest(C) of the earth is ripe.”

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15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released(A) to kill a third(B) of mankind.(C)

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They say, ‘Haven’t our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot,(A) and we are the meat in it.’(B)

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    a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,

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As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
    so[a] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
    so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or over the human spirit to retain it, / and so

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

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31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria(A) enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.(B)

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Or is it only I and Barnabas(A) who lack the right to not work for a living?

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