Matthew 10:34

New Living Translation

“Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:10

Then I said, “What sorrow is mine, my mother. Oh, that I had died at birth! I am hated everywhere I go. I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose nor a borrower who refuses to pay— yet they all curse me.”

Acts 14:2

Some of the Jews, however, spurned God’s message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas.

Acts 14:4

But the people of the town were divided in their opinion about them. Some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

Revelation 6:4

Then another horse appeared, a red one. Its rider was given a mighty sword and the authority to take peace from the earth. And there was war and slaughter everywhere.

Judges 3:2

He did this to teach warfare to generations of Israelites who had no experience in battle.