Ecclesiastes 3:8 · KJV
“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Ecclesiastes 3 — Context
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; {get: or, seek}
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Cross References
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28-29
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Luke 14:26
If any {man} come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
1 Kings 5:4
But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, {so that there is} neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore {is} wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Psalms 139:21
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Genesis 14:14-17
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained {servants}, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued {them} unto Dan. {armed: or, led forth} {trained: or, instructed}
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD 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.
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