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Ecclesiastes 3:5
a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together,
from To Everything There Is a Season, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
What it says

There is a time to cast away stones and to gather them, to embrace and to refrain from embracing.

What it is doing

This verse adds relational and practical contrasts.

In context

1To everything there is a season, 2a time to be born and a time to die, 3a time to kill and a time to heal, 4a time to weep and a time to laugh, 5a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, 6a time to search and a time to count as lost, 7a time to tear and a time to mend, 8a time to love and a time to hate,