Ecclesiastes 3:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 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

1 Kings 5:4

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

2 Kings 9:22

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

2 Chronicles 19:2

But Jehu the 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.

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 cleave to me.

Psalm 105:25

He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

Psalm 139:21

Do I not hate them that hate thee, O Lord? And do I not loathe them that rise up against thee?

Proverbs 13:5

A righteous man hates falsehood, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully.

Ezekiel 16:8

“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Luke 14:26

“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Ephesians 3:19

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

Ephesians 5:25

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

Titus 2:4

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

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.

Revelation 2:2

“ ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false;