Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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.

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 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 tear, 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 does he have who works in that in which he labors?


Cross References

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Genesis 14:14-17

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained servants, born in his own house (three hundred and eighteen) and pursued them to Dan.

Joshua 8:1-29

And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not fear, nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

Joshua 11:23

And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

2 Samuel 10:6-19

And the sons of Ammon saw that they had begun to stink before David. And the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and from King Maacah a thousand men, and from Ishtob twelve thousand men.

1 Kings 5:4

But now Jehovah my God has given me rest all around. There is no foe nor evil happening.

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate Jehovah? And by this bring wrath on you from before Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 20:1-30

And it happened after this the sons of Moab, and the sons of Ammon came in, and with them others besides the Ammonites, to battle against Jehoshaphat.

Psalm 139:21

O Jehovah, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

Ezekiel 16:8

And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.

Ephesians 3:19

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

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

Ephesians 5:28-29

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

Titus 2:4

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Revelation 2:2

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.

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