Matthew 10:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Common English Bible

³⁴ “Don’t think that I’ve come to bring peace to the earth. I haven’t come to bring peace but a sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Do not think that I came to send peace upon the earth. I came, not to send peace, but the sword.

Matthew 10:34 Cross References

Acts 14:4

But the residents of the city were divided: some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Revelation 6:4

And out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword.

Judges 3:2

(it was only for successive generations of Israelites, to teach war to those who had no experience of it):