Ecclesiastes 3:8

Christian Standard Bible ®

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for shalom.

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

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

New American Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

New Century Version
There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

Amplified Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

World English Bible
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for peace.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Legacy Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate;A time for war and a time for peace.

Berean Standard Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Contemporary English Version
There is also a time for love and hate, for war and peace.

Complete Jewish Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

George Lamsa Translation
A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

Good News Translation
He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.

Lexham English Bible
a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A tyme to loue, & a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

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

Bible in Basic English
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A time to love, and a time to hate; {S}{S}{N}

King James Version (1611)
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
A tyme to loue, and a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tyme of loue, and tyme of hatrede; tyme of batel, and tyme of pees.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

New English Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New King James Version
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.

New Living Translation
A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.

New Life Bible
There is a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A time to love and a time to hate, - A time of war, and a time of peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

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

Young's Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

Contextual Overview

¹There is an occasion for everything, ²a time to give birth and a time to die;a time to plant and a time to uproot; ³a time to kill and a time to heal;a time to tear down and a time to build; ⁴a time to weep and a time to laugh;a time to mourn and a time to dance; ⁵a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing; ⁶a time to search and a time to count as lost;a time to keep and a time to throw away; ⁷a time to tear and a time to sew;a time to be silent and a time to speak; ⁸a time to love and a time to hate;a time for war and a time for peace.⁹What does the worker gain from his struggles? ¹⁰I have seen the task that God has given the children of Adam to keep them occupied.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

time to love: Ezekiel 16:8, Psalms 139:21, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:29, Titus 2:4

a time to hate: 2 Chronicles 19:2, Luke 14:26, Revelation 2:2

a time of war: Genesis 14:14-17, Joshua 8:1-29, Joshua 11:23, 2 Samuel 10:6-19, 1 Kings 5:4, 2 Chronicles 20:1-29, 2 Chronicles 20:30

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:1 - after the year

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”

Genesis 3:9
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

Genesis 3:12
The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Deuteronomy 4:33
Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 5:25
But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A time to love, and a time to hate,.... For one to love his friend, and to hate a man, a sinner, as the Targum; to love a friend while he continues such, and hate him, or less love him, when he proves treacherous and unfaithful; an instance of a change of love into hatred may be seen in the case of Amnon, 2 Samuel 13:15. A time of unregeneracy is a time of loving worldly lusts and sinful pleasures, the company of wicked men, and all carnal delights and recreations; and a time of conversion is a time to hate what was before loved, sin, and the conversion of sinners, the garment spotted with the flesh, the principles and practices, though not the persons, of ungodly men; and even to hate, that is, less love, the dearest friends and relations, in comparison of, or when in competition with, Christ;

a time of war, and a time of peace; for nations to be engaged in war with each other, or to be at peace, which are continually revolving; and there is a time when there will be no more war. In a spiritual sense, the present time, or state of things, is a time of war; the Christian's life is a warfare state, though it will be soon accomplished, in which he is engaging in fighting with spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world: the time to come, or future state, is a time of peace, when saints shall enter into peace, and be no more disturbed by enemies from within or from without. In the Midrash, all the above times and seasons are interpreted of Israel, and applied to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 3:8. A time to love, - hate, - of war, - of peace. —

"Love turns to hatred; interest or caprice

Dissolves the firmest knot by friendship tied.

O'er rival nations, with revenge inflamed,

Or lust of power, fell Discord shakes awhile

Her baleful torch: now smiling Peace returns.

The above paraphrase on the verses cited contains a general view of the principal occurrences of time, in reference to the human being, from his cradle to his grave, through all the operations of life.