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, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• Eph 5:28–29So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
• Luke 14:26If 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 Kgs 5:4But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
• 2 Chr 19:2And 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.
• Ps 139:21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
• Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Eph 3:19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
• Gen 14:14–17And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
• Josh 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
• 2 Sam 10:6–19And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
• Josh 8:1–29And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
• Rev 2:2I 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:
• 2 Chr 20:1–30It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
• Ezek 16:8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

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