Matthew 10:34

New International Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:10

Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Acts 14:2

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 14:4

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

Revelation 6:4

Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

Judges 3:2

(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):