Matthew 10:34 “Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not…”

Matthew 10:34

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

Other translations

King James Version

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

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.

American Standard Version

Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thinke not that I am come to sende peace into the earth: I came not to send peace, but the sworde.

Darby Translation

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

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;

Bible in Basic English

Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

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Cross references

“that I”

Luke 12:49–53 Acts 14:4 Acts 13:45–50 Acts 14:2 John 7:40–52 Jeremiah 15:10

Luke 12:49–53 · BSB

I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

Acts 14:4 · BSB

The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

Acts 13:45–50 · BSB

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Acts 14:2 · BSB

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

John 7:40–52 · BSB

On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”

Jeremiah 15:10 · BSB

Woe 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

35For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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