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

Matthew 10:34 (KJV) |

Matthew 10:34

From Matthew 10, in the Book of Matthew (New Testament).

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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.

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