Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

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.

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 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Cross References

Judges 9:23-57

God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

Judges 12:1-6

The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!"

2 Samuel 20:1

There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!"

2 Samuel 20:6

David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than did Absalom. Take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight."

1 Kings 12:16-20

When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

Isaiah 9:20-21

One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

Isaiah 19:2-3

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Ezekiel 37:22

and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;

Zechariah 11:14

Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

John 17:21

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

1 Corinthians 1:10-13

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Ephesians 4:3-6

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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