KJV King James Version
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
WEB World English Bible
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
ASV American Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
Surrounding context — Ecclesiastes 3
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Ephesians 5:28-29So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Luke 14:26If 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 5:4But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.Psalm 139:21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?Revelation 2:2I 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:Genesis 14:14-17And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.2 Samuel 10:6-19And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.Joshua 8:1-29And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,Ephesians 3:19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.2 Chronicles 20:1-30It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.Ezekiel 16:8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
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