A Time for Everything
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 · Berean Standard Bible
A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance — Solomon names the seasons every life moves through. A steadying passage when the season you are in is hard.
1To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
7a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Read the wider context: Ecclesiastes 3.
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