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Key Verses in Ecclesiastes
Important passages from Ecclesiastes, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: A time for everything
The Teacher's poem of fourteen pairs of seasons, from birth and death to war and peace. Life has its times, under a God whose work humans cannot fully grasp (3:11).
9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Two are better than one
The Teacher observes that companions help each other up when one falls, while a person alone has no one to help.
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. Fear God and keep his commandments
The conclusion of Ecclesiastes after its search for meaning: fear God and keep his commandments, for God will bring every deed into judgement.
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