Matthew 10:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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 residents 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 ever 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 would slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword.

Judges 3:2

(it was only for successive generations of Israelites, to teach war to those who had no experience of it):