Chapter summary

Ecclesiastes 3 Summary

Ecclesiastes 3 declares there is ‘a time for everything,’ reflecting on the seasons of life and God’s eternal purposes.

The famous poem—‘a time to be born and a time to die… a time to weep and a time to laugh’—acknowledges that life moves through God-appointed seasons.

The Preacher concludes that God ‘has made everything beautiful in its time’ and set eternity in the human heart, calling us to trust God’s timing.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:” Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.”

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