Mat 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {yet} every one of them doth curse me.
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against {their} parents, and cause them to be put to death.
And there went out another horse {that was} red: and {power} was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither {was there any} peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour. {there was...: or, the hire of man became nothing}
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver {them}. {deliver: Heb. make to be found}
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. {neighbour: or, friend}
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.