32 (A)So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but (B)whoever denies me before men, (C)I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Not Peace, but a Sword

34 (D)“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. (E)I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 (F)For I have come (G)to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 (H)And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

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