Ecclesiastes 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28-29
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. …
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.
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.
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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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. In the wheel of nature (Jas. 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. hate--for example, sin, lusts (Lu 14:26); that is, to love God so much more as to seem in comparison to hate “father or mother,” when coming between us and God. a time of war ... peace--(Lu 14:31).