Matthew 10:34

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet everyone curses me.

Acts 14:2

although the disbelieving Jews stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Acts 14:4

The people of the city were divided: some were with the Jews; others, with the apostles.

Acts 28:29

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Revelation 6:4

Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword.

Judges 3:2

to teach warfare to those generations of Israelites who had never experienced it: