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Ecclesiastes 3:7

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A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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The surrounding passage

  1. 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;

  2. Ecclesiastes 3:6

    A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

  3. Ecclesiastes 3:8

    A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

  4. Ecclesiastes 3:9

    What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.