Parallel Verses

An Understandable Version

And if a kingdom is plagued by internal division, it will never survive.

New American Standard Bible

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

King James Version

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Holman Bible

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

International Standard Version

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

A Conservative Version

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

American Standard Version

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Amplified

If a kingdom is divided [split into factions and rebelling] against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Anderson New Testament

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand.

Bible in Basic English

If there is division in a kingdom, that kingdom will come to destruction;

Common New Testament

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Daniel Mace New Testament

if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom cannot last.

Darby Translation

And if a kingdom has become divided against itself, that kingdom cannot subsist.

Godbey New Testament

And if a kingdom may be divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand,

Goodspeed New Testament

If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last.

John Wesley New Testament

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Julia Smith Translation

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

King James 2000

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand.

Modern King James verseion

And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if a realm be divided against itself, that realm cannot endure.

Moffatt New Testament

If a realm is divided against itself, that realm cannot stand:

Montgomery New Testament

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

NET Bible

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom will not be able to stand.

New Heart English Bible

And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Noyes New Testament

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

Sawyer New Testament

And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

The Emphasized Bible

And, if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Even if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand:

Twentieth Century New Testament

When a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot last;

Webster

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Weymouth New Testament

For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

Williams New Testament

If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last.

World English Bible

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Worrell New Testament

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Worsley New Testament

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand:

Youngs Literal Translation

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

if
ἐάν 
Ean 
Usage: 155

βασιλεία 
Basileia 
Usage: 54

be divided
μερίζω 
merizo 
Usage: 8

ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

ἑαυτοῦ 
heautou 
Usage: 249

ἐκεῖνος 
Ekeinos 
that, those, he, the same, they,
Usage: 148

βασιλεία 
Basileia 
Usage: 54

οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A House Divided Cannot Stand

23 And He called them to Him and began speaking to them in parables [i.e., brief stories to illustrate His teaching], saying, "How can Satan drive out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom is plagued by internal division, it will never survive. 25 And if a household is divided [by strife] within, that household will never last.


Cross References

John 17:21

[I pray] that all of them may be one, just as you, Father, are [one] in [fellowship with] me, and I [am one] in [fellowship with] you, so that they also may be [one] in [fellowship with] us in order that the world may [see it and] believe that you sent me.

1 Corinthians 1:10-13

Now I urge you, brothers, through the name [i.e., by the authority] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you should all agree in what you say, so that no divisions [continue] among you. Be restored [to unity] by having common thoughts and convictions [i.e., in spiritual matters].

Ephesians 4:3-6

Eagerly try to maintain the unity produced by the Holy Spirit by being bound together in peace.

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