Ecclesiastes 3:8

Good News Translation

He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.

Cross References

1 Kings 5:4

But now the Lord my God has given me peace on all my borders. I have no enemies, and there is no danger of attack.

2 Kings 9:22

“Are you coming in peace?” Joram asked him. “How can there be peace,” Jehu answered, “when we still have all the witchcraft and idolatry that your mother Jezebel started?”

2 Chronicles 19:2

A prophet, Jehu son of Hanani, went to meet the king and said to him, “Do you think it is right to help those who are wicked and to take the side of those who hate the Lord? What you have done has brought the Lord's anger on you.

Psalm 101:3

and will never tolerate evil. I hate the actions of those who turn away from God; I will have nothing to do with them.

Psalm 105:25

He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.

Psalm 139:21

O Lord, how I hate those who hate you! How I despise those who rebel against you!

Proverbs 13:5

Honest people hate lies, but the words of wicked people are shameful and disgraceful.

Ezekiel 16:8

“As I passed by again, I saw that the time had come for you to fall in love. I covered your naked body with my coat and promised to love you. Yes, I made a marriage covenant with you, and you became mine.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

Luke 14:26

“Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.

Ephesians 3:19

Yes, may you come to know his love—although it can never be fully known—and so be completely filled with the very nature of God.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

Titus 2:4

in order to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

Joshua 11:23

Joshua captured the whole land, as the Lord had commanded Moses. Joshua gave it to the Israelites as their own and divided it into portions, one for each tribe. So the people rested from war.

Revelation 2:2

I know what you have done; I know how hard you have worked and how patient you have been. I know that you cannot tolerate evil people and that you have tested those who say they are apostles but are not, and have found out that they are liars.