Cross references

Ecclesiastes 3:2

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

Ecclesiastes 3:2 BSB

Ecclesiastes 3:2 has 34 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hebrews 9:27 (13 votes) and Job 14:5 (11 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Genesis 17 to Hebrews 9.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 3:2 point to?

The 20 strongest of 34, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Hebrews 9:2713 votes

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

  2. Job 14:511 votes

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

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

  4. At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. …

  5. Job 7:16 votes

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

  6. In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

  7. Luke 1:206 votes

    And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

  8. John 16:216 votes

    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

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

  10. Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

  11. Acts 7:174 votes
  12. Acts 7:204 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 3:2?

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