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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;
• Eph 5:28–29Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
• Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
• 1 Kgs 5:4But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
• Ps 139:21Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
• Titus 2:4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Eph 3:19and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
• Gen 14:14–17When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
• Josh 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
• 2 Sam 10:6–19When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
• Josh 8:1–29Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• 2 Chr 20:1–30After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
• Ezek 16:8“‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

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