Ecclesiastes 3:3
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
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time to kill

Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

1 Samuel 2:6, 25
The LORD brings death and gives life; some He brings down to Sheol, and others He raises up. . . .

Hosea 6:1, 2
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind us up. . . .

a time to heal

Numbers 26:6-9
the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi. . . .

Isaiah 38:5
"Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Jeremiah 33:6
Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Luke 9:54-56
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, "Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?" . . .

Acts 5:15, 16
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. . . .

a time to break

Isaiah 5:5, 6
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled. . . .

Isaiah 44:26
who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited, ' and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins, '

Jeremiah 31:28
Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear them down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so will I be attentive to build them and to plant them, " declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 45:4
Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: "This is what the LORD says: I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the land!

Ezekiel 13:14
I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Daniel 9:25-27
Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress. . . .

Zechariah 1:12
Then the Angel of the LORD said, "How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?"

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build;

International Standard Version
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build up;

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