Matthew 10:34

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Acts 14:4

But the people 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 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 should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Judges 3:2

It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.