Ecclesiastes 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. [Luke 14:26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Common English Bible

⁸ a time for loving and a time for hating, a time for war and a time for peace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:8 Cross References

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Luke 14:26

“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

1 Kings 5:4

But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.

Revelation 2:2

“I know your works, your toil and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate evildoers; you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them to be false.

Psalm 139:21

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

Titus 2:4

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Ephesians 3:19

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Psalm 101:3

I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Proverbs 13:5

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked act shamefully and disgracefully.

2 Kings 9:22

When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the many prostitutions and sorceries of your mother Jezebel continue?”

Psalm 105:25

whose hearts he then turned to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.