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Ecclesiastes 3:8

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6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

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

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

9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

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BSB
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
KJV
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
WEB
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
ASV
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
DARBY
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.
BLB
a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war and a time of peace.
ÅB
å elske har sin tid og å hate har sin tid; krig har sin tid og fred har sin tid.
OTB
En tid for å elske og en tid for å hate, en tid for krig og en tid for fred.
B1930
å elske har sin tid og å hate har sin tid; krig har sin tid og fred har sin tid.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Ephesians 5:25

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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  • Ephesians 5:28–29

    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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?

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  • Revelation 2:2

    I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

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  • Ephesians 3:19

    And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

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