Ecclesiastes 3:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
עֵ֤ת לֶֽאֱהֹב֙ וְעֵ֣ת לִשְׂנֹ֔א עֵ֥ת מִלְחָמָ֖ה וְעֵ֥ת שָׁלֽוֹם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:
- Eph 5:28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
- Eph 5:29For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:
- 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.
- Ps 139 (138):21
- Rev 2:2I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars:
- 2 Chr 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:
- Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.