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Bible in Basic English
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
New American Standard Bible
A time for war and a time for peace.
King James Version
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Holman Bible
a time for war and a time for peace.
International Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
A Conservative Version
a time to love, and a time to hate, a time for war, and a time for peace.
American Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Amplified
A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.
Darby Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.
Julia Smith Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace:
King James 2000
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Lexham Expanded Bible
a time to love and a time to hate; a time [for] war and a time [for] peace.
Modern King James verseion
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.
NET Bible
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
New Heart English Bible
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
The Emphasized Bible
A time to love and a time to hate, - A time of war, and a time of peace.
Webster
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
World English Bible
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Youngs Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Has Ordained The Ebb And Flow Of Human Activities
7 A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk; 8 A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
Cross References
Luke 14:26
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
Genesis 14:14-17
And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.
Joshua 8:1-29
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-men and go up against Ai: for I have given into your hands the king of Ai and his people and his town and his land:
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
2 Samuel 10:6-19
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.
1 Kings 5:4
But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
2 Chronicles 20:1-30
Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.
Psalm 139:21
Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
Ephesians 3:19
And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28-29
Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
Titus 2:4
Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,
Revelation 2:2
I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;