Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal 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.

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.

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 advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?


Cross References

Luke 14:26

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

Genesis 14:14-17

And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.

Joshua 8:1-29

And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Fear not, nor be affrighted, take with thee all the people of war, and rise, 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

And Joshua taketh the whole of the land, according to all that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses, and Joshua giveth it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes; and the land hath rest from war.

2 Samuel 10:6-19

And the Bene-Ammon see that they have been abhorred by David, and the Bene-Ammon send and hire Aram of Beth-Rehob, and Aram of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and Ish-Tob with twelve thousand men;

1 Kings 5:4

'And now, Jehovah my God hath given rest to me round about, there is no adversary nor evil occurrence,

2 Chronicles 19:2

and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, 'To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee is wrath from before Jehovah,

2 Chronicles 20:1-30

And it cometh to pass after this, the sons of Moab have come in, and the sons of Ammon, and with them of the peoples, against Jehoshaphat to battle.

Psalm 139:21

Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?

Ezekiel 16:8

And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

Ephesians 3:19

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

Ephesians 5:25

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Ephesians 5:28-29

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

Titus 2:4

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

Revelation 2:2

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

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