Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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Bible References

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Jeremiah 15:10
How terrible for me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of strife and contention for the whole land! I've neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Luke 12:49
"I've come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze!
John 7:40
When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"
Acts 13:45
But when the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to object to the statements made by Paul and even to abuse him.
Acts 14:2
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

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Luke 12:51
Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division!
John 10:19
Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

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