Matthew 10:34
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
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“Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 10:34 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 3:2if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
- Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Luke 12:49I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
- John 7:40On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
- Acts 14:2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
- Acts 14:4The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.
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