Matthew 10:34-39 - Not Peace, But A Sword Of Divisiveness

³⁴ don't imagine that I am come to bring peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but war. ³⁵ my coming will occasion discord between the son and his father, between the daughter and her mother, between the daughter in law and her mother in law: ³⁶ even a man's own domestics shall prove his foes.

³⁷ he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me. ³⁸ and he that does not take his cross, and so follow after me, is unworthy of me. ³⁹ he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.

⁴⁹ I am come to purify the earth with fire, and how do I wish it were already kindled? ⁵⁰ the baptism, which I am to undergo, how do I long till it be accomplished? ⁵¹ do you imagine that my coming will produce peace on the earth? I tell you, no; but rather division. ⁵² for the future, if there are five persons in one family, they will be divided; three against two, and two against three.

⁵³ the father will be at variance with his son, and the son with the father: the mother with the daughter, and the daughter with the mother: the mother-in-law with the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law with the mother-in-law.