Mat 10:34-39 | ESV | STEP | Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth . I have not come to bring peace , but a sword .

aSee Luke 12:51-53

b[Rev. 6:4]

c[See ver. 34 above]

d ver. 21; [Mic. 7:6]

eCited from Mic. 7:6; [Ps. 41:9; 55:12, 13; John 13:18]

f Luke 14:26

g ch. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23; 14:27

h ch. 9:9; John 8:12; 12:26; 21:19

i ch. 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; 17:33; John 12:25

Matthew 10:34-39

Not Peace, but a Sword

34 ^a“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. ^bI have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 ^cFor I have come ^dto set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 ^eAnd a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 ^fWhoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And ^gwhoever does not take his cross and ^hfollow me is not worthy of me. 39 ⁱWhoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.