Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Euery thyng hath a tyme, yea all that is vnder the heaue hath his conuenient season

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Euery thyng hath a tyme, yea all that is vnder the heaue hath his conuenient season ² There is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye: there is a tyme to plant, and a tyme to plucke vp the thyng that is planted ³ A tyme to slay, and a tyme to make whole: a tyme to breake downe, and a tyme to builde vp ⁴ A tyme to weepe, and a tyme to laugh: a tyme to mourne, & a tyme to daunce ⁵ A tyme to cast away stones, and a tyme to gather stones together: A tyme to imbrace, and a tyme to refrayne from imbracyng ⁶ A tyme to wynne, and a tyme to lose: A tyme to spare, and a tyme to spende ⁷ A tyme to cut in peeces, and a tyme to sowe together: A tyme to kepe scilence, and a tyme to speake ⁸ A tyme to loue, and a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace ⁹ What hath a man els that doth any thyng, but weerinesse and labour ¹⁰ For as touchyng the trauayle and carefulnesse which God hath geuen vnto men, I see that he hath geuen it them to be exercised in it ¹¹ All this hath he ordeyned marueilous goodly, to euery thyng his due tyme: He hath planted ignoraunce also in the heartes of men, that they shoulde not comprehende the ground of his workes which he doth from the begynnyng to the ende ¹² So I perceaued that in those thinges there is nothyng better for a man then to be mery, and to do well as long as he lyueth ¹³ For all that a man eateth & drynketh, yea whatsoeuer a man enioyeth of all his labour: that same is a gyft of God ¹⁴ I considered also that whatsoeuer God doth, it continueth for euer: And that nothyng can be put vnto it, nor taken from it, & that God doth it to the intent that men shoulde feare hym ¹⁵ The thyng that hath ben, is nowe: and the thyng that is for to come, hath ben afore time: for God restoreth againe the thyng that was past