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Ecclesiastes 3:8 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 3 · verse 8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.Ecclesiastes 3:8 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 3:8 in context
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
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Key words (Strong's)
- timeʻêthtime, especially now, when, etcH6256 →
- loveʼâhabto have affection forH157 →
- hatesânêʼto hateH8130 →
- warmilchâmâha battleH4421 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10