Not Peace but a Sword
Matthew 10:34
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
- KJV
- Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
- WEB
- “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
- ASV
- Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
- LSV
- You may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
- YLT
- 'Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
- DBY
- Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
- DRC
- Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.
- GNV
- Thinke not that I am come to sende peace into the earth: I came not to send peace, but the sworde.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν· οὐκ ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν.
- RP2018
- Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν· οὐκ ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην, ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν.
- TR-Boyd
- Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν· οὐκ ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην, ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν.
- SCR1894
- μη νομισητε οτι ηλθον βαλειν ειρηνην επι την γην ουκ ηλθον βαλειν ειρηνην αλλα μαχαιραν
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Cross-references most cited first
- Luke 12:49–53I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the…
- Acts 14:4The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.
- Acts 13:45–50But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying. Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you…
- Acts 14:2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
- John 7:40–52On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? Doesn’t the Scripture say that the…
- 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.
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