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Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 3
A Time for Everything[a]
1 For everything there is a season,
and a time[b] for every activity under heaven.
2 A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 Our mortality is neither chastisement nor recompense but only the mystery of the human condition. We participate better in God’s creation when we accept each moment as a gift.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 Time: which is appointed by God (see Ps 31:16; Prov 16:1-9).
