Ecclesiastes 3:8

Ecclesiastes chapter 3 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Context

v.7a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

v.8This passage

v.9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:1

    And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

  • Luke 14:26

    If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

  • Genesis 14:14

    And when Abram heard that his brother 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

    And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;

  • Ephesians 5:28

    Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

  • Ephesians 3:19

    and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.