Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace:

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.

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 be silent, 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 the excellence of him working in what he labored?

Cross References

Luke 14:26

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Genesis 14:14-17

And Abram shall hear that his brother was carried away captive, and he will draw forth his trained, born in his house, eighteen and three hundred, and will pursue, even to Dan.

Joshua 8:1-29

And Jehovah will say to Joshua, Thou shalt not fear, and thou shalt not be terrified: take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I gave into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people and his city and his land:

Joshua 11:23

And Joshua will take all the land which Jehovah spake to Moses, and Joshua will give it for an inheritance to Israel according to their portion to their tribes. And the land rested from war.

2 Samuel 10:6-19

And the sons of Ammon will see that they became loathsome before David, and the sons of Ammon will send and hire Aram of the house of Rehob, and Aram of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and king Maacah a thousand men, and Ish-Tob two thousand men.

1 Kings 5:4

And now Jehovah my God caused rest to me from round about; not an adversary and not an evil event

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu son of Hanani the seer will go forth to his face, and say to king Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou love to help to the unjust, and to those hating Jehovah? and in this, wrath upon you from before Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 20:1-30

And it will be after this, the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon came, and with them from the Ammonites against Jehoshaphat for war.

Psalm 139:21

Shall I not hate those hating thee, O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against those rising up against thee.

Ezekiel 16:8

And I shall pass by thee and see thee, and behold, thy time the time of loves; and I shall spread my wing over thee and cover thy nakedness: and I shall swear to thee, and come into covenant with thee, says the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt be to me.

Ephesians 3:19

To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;

Ephesians 5:28-29

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself.

Titus 2:4

That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works, and thy fatigue, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked: and thou bast tried them saying they are sent, and are not, and thou Last found them liars:

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