Ecclesiastes 3:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Ecclesiastes 3:6 —

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Cross-References

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Philippians 3:7-8
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. …
Luke 9:24-25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. …
Mark 8:35-37
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. …
Matthew 16:25-26
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. …
2 Kings 5:26
And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. In the wheel of nature (Jas. 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. time to get--for example, to gain honestly a livelihood (Ep 4:23). lose--When God wills losses to us, then is our time to be content. keep--not to give to the idle beggar (2Th 3:10). cast away--in charity (Pr 11:24); or to part with the dearest object, rather than the soul (Mr 9:43). To be careful is right in its place, but not when it comes between us and Jesus Christ (Lu 10:40-42).