Ecclesiastes 3:6

There is a time to seek and to lose, to keep and to cast away. Gaining and letting go each have their appointed place in life.

Cross-references · 20

• Phil 3:7–8But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
• Luke 9:24–25For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
• Mark 8:35–37For 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.
• Matt 16:25–26For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
• Matt 19:29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
• Heb 10:34–35For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
• Mark 10:28–30Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
• Ps 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
• Eccl 11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
• 2 Kgs 5:26And 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?
• Acts 27:19And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
• Deut 8:17–18And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
• Gen 31:18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
• Exod 12:35–36And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
• Gen 30:30–43For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
• 2 Kgs 7:15And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
• Jonah 1:5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
• Isa 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
• Acts 27:38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
• 2 Kgs 8:9So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

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