Ecclesiastes 3:8

There is a time to love and to hate, a time for war and for peace. The full spectrum of human relations falls under God's appointed times.

Cross-references · 15

• Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
• Eph 5:28–29In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
• Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
• 1 Kgs 5:4But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
• Ps 139:21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
• Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
• Eph 3:19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
• Gen 14:14–17And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
• Josh 11:23So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
• 2 Sam 10:6–19When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
• Josh 8:1–29Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
• Rev 2:2I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
• 2 Chr 20:1–30After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.
• Ezek 16:8Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

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