Matthew 10:34
Good News Translation
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

New Revised Standard Version
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Contemporary English Version
Don't think I came to bring peace to the earth! I came to bring trouble, not peace.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

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Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Luke 12:49-53 I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that it be kindled? . . .

John 7:40-52 Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. . . .

Acts 13:45-50 And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming. . . .

Acts 14:2,4 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren. . . .

Context
The Sword of the Gospel
33But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. 34Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. 35For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.…
Cross References
Luke 12:51
Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

Revelation 6:4
And there went out another horse that was red. And to him that sat thereon, it was given that he should take peace from the earth: and that they should kill one another. And a great sword was given to him.

Matthew 10:33
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