Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

An Understandable Version

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

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.

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 unto him, and in similitudes said unto them, "How can Satan drive out Satan? 24 For if a realm be divided against itself, that realm cannot endure. 25 Or if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot continue:


Cross References

Judges 9:23-57

God sent a hate between Abimelech and the citizens of Shechem. And the citizens of Shechem railed upon Abimelech,

Judges 12:1-6

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, "Wherefore wentest thou to fight with the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? We will therefore burn thine house upon thee with fire."

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be an unthrifty fellow named Sheba, the son of Bichri a man of Benjamin which blew a trumpet and said, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse, O Israel.

2 Samuel 20:6

Wherefore the king said to Abishai, "Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri be worse to us than Absalom. Take thou therefore thy lord's servants and follow after him: lest he get him walled cities and escape us."

1 Kings 12:16-20

And when all Israel saw that the king regarded them not, the people answered the king again saying, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents therefore Israel, and now see to thine own house David." And so Israel departed unto their tents.

Isaiah 9:20-21

but robbeth him on the righthand, and doth famish; he eateth on the left hand and he shall not have enough. Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

Isaiah 19:2-3

And I will stir up the Egyptians one against another among themselves, so that one shall be ever against his brother and neighbour, yea one city against another, and one kingdom against another.

Ezekiel 37:22

Yea, I will make one people of them in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and they all shall have but one king. They shall no more be two peoples from henceforth, neither be divided into two kingdoms:

Zechariah 11:14

Then brake I my other staff also, namely Woe, that I might loose the brotherhood betwixt Judah and Israel.

John 17:21

that they all may be one, as thou father art in me, and I in thee; that they may be also one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

1 Corinthians 1:10-13

I beseech you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all speak one thing and that there be no dissension among you: but be ye perfect in one mind, and one meaning.

Ephesians 4:3-6

and that ye be diligent to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace,

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