Ecclesiastes 3:8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

A time {H6256} to love {H157}, and a time {H6256} to hate {H8130}; a time {H6256} of war {H4421}, and a time {H6256} of peace {H7965}.

a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Ephesians 5:25 (10 votes)

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

  • Ephesians 5:28 (8 votes)

    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

  • Ephesians 5:29 (8 votes)

    For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

  • Luke 14:26 (7 votes)

    If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

  • 1 Kings 5:4 (6 votes)

    But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

  • Psalms 139:21 (5 votes)

    Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

  • Revelation 2:2 (5 votes)

    I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: