Parallel Verses
World English Bible
a time to love, and a time to 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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
Topics
Interlinear
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 for war, and a time for peace. 9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
Cross References
Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
Genesis 14:14-17
When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
Joshua 8:1-29
Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
2 Samuel 10:6-19
When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
1 Kings 5:4
But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.
2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 20:1-30
It happened after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Psalm 139:21
Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
Ephesians 3:19
and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Ephesians 5:28-29
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own 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 toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.