A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 3:6
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A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
- Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.