Matthew 10:34

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Matthew 10:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

33 But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

34 Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

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.

36 A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

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Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Luke 12:49

I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

Luke 12:50

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Luke 12:51

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Luke 12:52

From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

Luke 12:53

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

John 7:40

On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”

John 7:41

Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?

John 7:42

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

John 7:43

So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.

John 7:44

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.

John 7:45

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

John 7:46

“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.

John 7:47

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

John 7:48

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

John 7:49

But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”

John 7:50

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,

John 7:51

“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

John 7:52

“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

Acts 13:47

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Acts 13:48

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

Acts 13:49

And the word of the Lord spread throughout that region.

Acts 13:50

The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 14:4

The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.