Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

A time to love and a time to hate;
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 to love and a time to hate;
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.

Bible in Basic English

A time for love and a time for 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A time
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

to love
אהב אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 212

and a time
עת 
`eth 
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296
Usage: 296

to hate
שׂנא 
Sane' 
Usage: 145

a time
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

of war
מלחמה 
Milchamah 
Usage: 319

References

Fausets

Hastings

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 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 for war and a time for peace.
9 What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?


Cross References

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Genesis 14:14-17

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his tried and experienced servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

Joshua 8:1-29

And 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 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had 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.

2 Samuel 10:6-19

And when the sons of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the sons 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.

1 Kings 5:4

Now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side so that there is neither adversary nor evil encounter.

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu, the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the ungodly and love those that hate the LORD? Therefore, the wrath of the presence of the LORD shall be upon thee.

2 Chronicles 20:1-30

It came to pass after this also that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon and with them others besides the Ammonites came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

Psalm 139:21

Do I not hate all those, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Ezekiel 16:8

And I passed by thee and looked upon thee; behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my mantle over thee and covered thy shame; and I gave thee an oath and entered into a covenant with thee, said the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine;

Ephesians 3:19

and to know the charity of the Christ, which passes all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself for her,

Ephesians 5:28-29

So ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.

Titus 2:4

that they may teach the young women to be prudent, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear those who are evil; and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles and are not and hast found them liars,

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