Verse 3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD kills and makes alive: he brings down to the grave and brings up.
  • Hos 6:1-2 : 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days he will revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.
  • Zech 1:12 : 12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation these seventy years?
  • Luke 9:54-56 : 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did? 55 But he turned and rebuked them, and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them. And they went to another village.
  • Acts 5:15-16 : 15 So much so that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. 16 A multitude also came out of the cities surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were healed every one.
  • Num 26:6-9 : 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and those that were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. 9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is the Dathan and Abiram, who were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
  • Deut 32:39 : 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: nor is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
  • 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless, they did not listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to kill them.
  • Isa 5:5-6 : 5 And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 38:5-9 : 5 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years. 6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be a sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken: 8 Behold, I will bring back the shadow on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which it had gone down. 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: 10 I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world. 12 My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me. 13 I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so You will restore me, and make me live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but in love for my soul, You have delivered it from the pit of corruption: for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day: the father shall make known Your truth to the children. 20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
  • Isa 44:26 : 26 Who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to uproot, to break down, to throw down, and to destroy, and to harm; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, says the LORD.
  • Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 Thus you shall say to him, The LORD says this; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, even this whole land.
  • Ezek 13:14 : 14 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in its midst; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Dan 9:25-27 : 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.