Matthew 10:34

Geneva Bible (1560)

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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  • Luke 12:49-53 : 49 I am come to put fire on the earth, and what is my desire, if it be already kindled? 50 Notwithstanding I must be baptized with a baptisme, & how am I grieued, till it be ended? 51 Thinke ye that I am come to giue peace on earth? I tell you, nay, but rather debate. 52 For from hencefoorth there shall be fiue in one house deuided, three against two, and two against three. 53 The father shalbe deuided against ye sonne, and the sonne against the father: the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother: the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe, and the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe.
  • Acts 14:4 : 4 But the multitude of the city was deuided: and some were with the Iewes, and some with the Apostles.
  • Acts 13:45-50 : 45 But when the Iewes saw the people, they were full of enuie, and spake against those things, which were spoken of Paul, contrarying them, and railing on them. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas spake boldly, and sayde, It was necessarie that the woorde of God shoulde first haue beene spoken vnto you: but seeing yee put it from you, and iudge your selues vnworthie of euerlasting life, loe, we turne to the Gentiles. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world. 48 And when the Gentiles heard it, they were glad, and glorified the woorde of the Lorde: and as many as were ordeined vnto eternall life, beleeued. 49 Thus the worde of the Lord was published throughout the whole countrey. 50 But the Iewes stirred certaine deuout & honourable women, and the chiefe men of the citie, and raised persecution against Paul & Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coastes.
  • Acts 14:2 : 2 And the vnbeleeuing Iewes stirred vp, and corrupted the mindes of the Gentiles against the brethren.
  • John 7:40-52 : 40 So many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, Of a trueth this is that Prophet. 41 Other saide, This is that Christ: and some said, But shall that Christ come out of Galile? 42 Saith not the Scripture that that Christ shall come of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Beth-leem, where Dauid was? 43 So was there dissension among the people for him. 44 And some of them would haue taken him, but no man layde handes on him. 45 Then came the officers to the hie Priests and Pharises, and they said vnto them, Why haue ye not brought him? 46 The officers answered, Neuer man spake like this man. 47 Then answered them the Pharises, Are yee also deceiued? 48 Doeth any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeue in him? 49 But this people, which know not the Law, are cursed. 50 Nicodemus said vnto them, ( he that came to Iesus by night, and was one of them.) 51 Doth our Law iudge a man before it heare him, and knowe what he hath done? 52 They answered, and said vnto him, Art thou also of Galile? Searche and looke: for out of Galile ariseth no Prophet.

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    50Notwithstanding I must be baptized with a baptisme, & how am I grieued, till it be ended?

    51Thinke ye that I am come to giue peace on earth? I tell you, nay, but rather debate.

    52For from hencefoorth there shall be fiue in one house deuided, three against two, and two against three.

    53The father shalbe deuided against ye sonne, and the sonne against the father: the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother: the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe, and the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe.

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