Ecclesiastes 3:8

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 · King James Version

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In other versions

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
ASV
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
BBE
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.
DBY
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for peace.
WEB
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
YLT
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
ENG
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
WBT
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
BSB

In context

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

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.

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