Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
In Context
7A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;
9What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
Cross References
Genesis 14:14And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
1 Kings 5:4But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.
2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
Psalms 105:25Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
Ezekiel 16:8Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:2-11
Mutability of Human Affairs. 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get,… Read the whole commentary →