Not Peace, but a Sword

34 (A)“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. (B)I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

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34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

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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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35 (A)For I have come (B)to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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35 For I have come to turn

“‘a man against his father,
    a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law(A)

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35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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36 (A)And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

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36     a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 10:36 Micah 7:6

36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

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37 (A)Whoever 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.

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37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.(A)

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37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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38 And (A)whoever does not take his cross and (B)follow me is not worthy of me.

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38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.(A)

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38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

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