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Bible in Basic English
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
New American Standard Bible
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a
King James Version
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Holman Bible
and a time for every activity under heaven:
International Standard Version
There is a season for everything, and a time for every event under heaven:
A Conservative Version
For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven:
American Standard Version
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Amplified
There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven—
Darby Translation
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:
Julia Smith Translation
To all a season, and a time to every inclination under the heavens:
King James 2000
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For everything there [is] an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven:
Modern King James verseion
To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens:
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Every thing hath a time; yea, all that is under the heaven, hath his convenient season.
NET Bible
For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:
New Heart English Bible
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
The Emphasized Bible
For, every thing, there is a season, - and a time for every pursuit, under the heavens: -
Webster
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
World English Bible
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Youngs Literal Translation
To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Verse Info
Context Readings
God Has Ordained The Ebb And Flow Of Human Activities
1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun. 2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
Phrases
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Matthew 16:3
And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.
2 Kings 5:26
And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?
2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
Ecclesiastes 8:5-6
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.