KJV King James Version
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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Matthew 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
WEB World English Bible
“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
ASV American Standard Version
Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
Surrounding context — Matthew 10
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come 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.
36 And a man’s foes [shall be] they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΜὴG3361 · mēnotνομίσητεG3543 · nomizōto thinkὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatἦλθονG2064 · erchomaito come/goβαλεῖνG906 · ballōto throw: throwεἰρήνηνG1515 · eirēnēpeaceἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoγῆν·G1093 · gēearth: planetοὐκG3756 · ounoἦλθονG2064 · erchomaito come/goβαλεῖνG906 · ballōto throw: throwεἰρήνηνG1515 · eirēnēpeaceἀλλὰG235 · allabutμάχαιραν.G3162 · machairasword
Cross-references
Luke 12:49-53I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?Acts 14:4But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.Acts 13:45-50But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.Acts 14:2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.John 7:40-52Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
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