Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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Genesis 2:7
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Genesis 3:23
Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 33:6
Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
Psalms 103:14
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.
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Genesis 45:27
They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
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Genesis 45:28
Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
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Genesis 48:19
His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
Isaiah 41:1
“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
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Exodus 7:2
You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Ezekiel 2:7
You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.
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Exodus 8:23
I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.” ’ ”
Exodus 9:5
Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
Exodus 9:18
Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
Exodus 10:4
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
Numbers 16:5
He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
Jeremiah 28:16
Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ”
Jeremiah 28:17
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
Matthew 27:63
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
Matthew 27:64
Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
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Numbers 22:8
He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
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Judges 16:16
When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
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1 Samuel 15:27
As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
1 Samuel 15:28
Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
1 Kings 11:11
Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
1 Kings 12:31
He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings 14:8
and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
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2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
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Ezra 4:12
Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls and repaired the foundations.
1 Peter 2:15
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
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Nehemiah 2:12
I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me except the animal that I rode on.
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2 Samuel 1:2
on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth and showed respect.
2 Samuel 3:31
David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
2 Samuel 13:31
Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.
2 Kings 5:7
When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
2 Kings 6:30
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.
Job 2:12
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
Isaiah 37:1
When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
Jeremiah 36:24
The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
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1 Chronicles 29:30
with all his reign and his might, and the events that involved him, Israel, and all the kingdoms of the lands.
Esther 1:13
Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;
Job 34:24
He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
Job 34:25
Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job 34:26
He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Job 34:27
because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job 34:29
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,
Psalms 31:14
But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
Jeremiah 27:5
‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.
Jeremiah 27:6
Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
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Psalms 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
Acts 18:9
The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
1 Corinthians 16:9
for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
2 Corinthians 2:12
Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
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Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
Psalms 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 35:4
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
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Psalms 60:2
You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
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Psalms 145:6
Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
Psalms 145:11
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power,
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Psalms 145:21
My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
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Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Isaiah 25:7
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Ezekiel 13:18
and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves?
Matthew 22:12
and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
Mark 2:21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
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Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Daniel 2:9
But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”
Daniel 2:21
He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
Daniel 11:6
At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
John 19:24
Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.
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Psalms 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Psalms 38:13
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
Psalms 38:14
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Psalms 39:9
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
Amos 8:3
The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Matthew 27:12
When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
John 8:6
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
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Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
Jeremiah 8:14
“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Hosea 4:4
“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
Amos 6:10
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
Micah 7:6
For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
Matthew 27:13
Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”
Matthew 27:14
He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
Luke 4:41
Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
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Mark 8:27
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”
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Mark 9:6
For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.
Mark 9:10
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
Luke 9:36
When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
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Luke 1:19
The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
Luke 1:20
Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
Luke 1:22
When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
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Psalms 102:13
You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 3:15
That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.
John 2:4
Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
John 7:8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
John 8:20
Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 12:27
“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.
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1 Samuel 26:10
David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.
2 Samuel 7:12
When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:17
Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
2 Kings 2:3
The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over you today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
Psalms 116:15
Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
Luke 9:51
It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem
Acts 23:11
The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
Acts 27:24
saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
2 Peter 1:14
knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
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2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
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Genesis 14:23
that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
2 Kings 5:16
But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.
2 Kings 5:26
He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:8
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
2 Corinthians 11:9
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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1 Timothy 2:11
Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
1 Timothy 2:12
But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
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Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
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