Matthew 10:34 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁴ Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Matthew 10:34 Cross References

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent on usury, neither have men lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Acts 14:2

But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.

Acts 14:4

But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

Revelation 6:4

And another horse came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Judges 3:2

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;