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Ecclesiastes 3:8
8There is a time to love. There is a time to hate. There is a time for war. There is a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
- New International Version (NIV)a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
- English Standard Version (ESV)a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
- New King James Version (NKJV)A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.
Context of Ecclesiastes 3:8
6There is a time to look for things that you have lost. There is a time to accept that you have lost them. There is a time to keep things. There is a time to throw things away. 7There is a time to tear our clothes. There is a time to mend them. There is a time to say nothing. There is a time to speak. There is a time to love. There is a time to hate. There is a time for war. There is a time for peace. 9People work very hard, but what do they receive in return? 10I have seen the difficult work that God has given people to do. He has caused them to be very busy.
Read all of Ecclesiastes 3Ecclesiastes 3:8 word by word
עֵ֤ת לֶֽאֱהֹב֙ וְעֵ֣ת לִשְׂנֹ֔א עֵ֥ת מִלְחָמָ֖ה וְעֵ֥ת שָׁלֽוֹם׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 3:8
- Ezekiel 16:8Later, I saw you again as I went that way. I saw that you had become a woman who was old enough to marry. So I covered your bare body with my coat. I promised to marry you. I made a covenant with you so that you became my wife. That is what the Almighty Lord says.
- Psalms 139:21Lord, I hate those people who hate you. I have no time for those who turn against you.
- Ephesians 3:19Christ's love for us is so great that nobody can ever completely know it. As you understand this more and more, God's own nature will completely fill you.
- Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church. He even agreed to die on its behalf.
- 2 Chronicles 19:2The prophet Jehu, Hanani's son, went to meet him. He said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘You agreed to help a wicked man. You became the friend of someone who hates the Lord. You should not have done that. You have caused the Lord to be very angry with you.
- Luke 14:26‘If someone wants to obey me, he must live like this: He must love me more than he loves his own father and mother. He must love me more than he loves his wife and his children. He must love me more than he loves his brothers and his sisters. He must even love me more than he loves himself. If he does not do that, he cannot be one of my disciples.
- Revelation 2:2I know everything that you do. You have worked much for me. You have continued to work patiently. I know that you do not accept bad people as your friends. Some of these bad people say that they are apostles of Jesus. You have thought carefully about what they teach people. And you have discovered that it is not true.
- Genesis 14:14Abram understood that the kings had caught his nephew. So he called 318 men to come together. These men had been born in Abram's camp and they knew how to fight. Abram took his men with him. They went to attack the men who had caught Lot. They went as far as Dan.
- Joshua 8:1Then the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Do not be afraid. Continue to be brave! Take the whole army with you and go to attack Ai. This time, I will give the king and all his people to you. I will also give to you the city and its land.
- Joshua 11:23In that way, Joshua took the whole land. The Lord had promised Moses that he would give the land to his people. Joshua gave a part of the land to each tribe, for them to live in. After all that, the people did not have to fight any more.
- 2 Samuel 10:6The Ammonites realized that they had made David very angry. So they paid 20,000 Syrian soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah to come and fight for them. They also brought 1,000 soldiers from the king of Maakah and 12,000 soldiers from Tob.
- 1 Kings 5:4But now the Lord my God has made us safe from danger. No enemy tries to attack us on any of our borders.
- 2 Chronicles 20:1After that, armies from Moab and Ammon, as well as some Meunites, attacked Jehoshaphat.
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 3:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8A time to love, - hate, - of war, - of peace - "Love turns to hatred; interest or caprice Dissolves the firmest knot by friendship tied. O'er rival nations, with revenge inflamed, Or lust of power, fell Discord shakes awhile Her baleful torch: now smiling Peace returns." The above paraphrase on the verses cited contains a general view of the principal occurrences of time, in reference to the human being, from his cradle to his grave, through all the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-8We cannot control when we are born or when we die (Ecclesiastes 8:8), but we must live wisely between those events. plant and...uproot: Make wise agricultural decisions during the natural seasons. In ancient Israel, times to kill included capital punishment and war. During mourning, people in the Near East often tore their clothes. There is a time to hate, even for God (Psalms 5:5; 11:5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. hate--for example, sin, lusts (Lu 14:26); that is, to love God so much more as to seem in comparison to hate "father or mother," when coming between us and God. a time of war ... peace--(Lu 14:31).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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