Mark 9:40

Easy-to-Read Version

Whoever is not against us is with us.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For whoever is not against us is for us.

King James Version (1611)
For he that is not against vs, is on our part.

King James Version
For he that is not against us is on our part.

English Standard Version
For the one who is not against us is for us.

New American Standard Bible
"For the one who is not against us is for us.

New Century Version
Whoever is not against us is with us.

Amplified Bible
"For he who is not against us is for us.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For he who is not against us is for us.

Legacy Standard Bible
For he who is not against us is for us.

Berean Standard Bible
For whoever is not against us is for us.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who isn't against us is for us.

Complete Jewish Bible
For whoever is not against us is for us.

Darby Translation
for he who is not against us is for us.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For whosoeuer is not against vs, is on our part.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, he who is not against you is for you.

Good News Translation
For whoever is not against us is for us.

Lexham English Bible
For whoever is not against us is for us.

Literal Translation
For who is not against us is for us.

American Standard Version
For he that is not against us is for us.

Bible in Basic English
He who is not against us is for us.

Hebrew Names Version
For whoever is not against us is on our side.

International Standard Version
For whoever is not against us is for us.Matthew 12:30;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
He therefore who is not against you is for you.

Murdock Translation
Whoever therefore is not against you, is for you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he that is not against vs, is on our part.

English Revised Version
For he that is not against us is for us.

World English Bible
For whoever is not against us is on our side.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he that is not against you, is for you. For whosoever shall give you a cup of cold water to drink in my name,

Weymouth's New Testament
He who is not against us is for us;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that is not ayens vs, is for vs.

Update Bible Version
For he that is not against us is for us.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he that is not against us, is on our part.

New English Translation
For whoever is not against us is for us.

New King James Version
"For he who is not against us is on our [fn] side.

New Living Translation
Anyone who is not against us is for us.

New Life Bible
The person who is not against us is for us.

New Revised Standard
Whoever is not against us is for us.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, whosoever is not, against, us, is, for, us;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-39) For he that is not against you is for you.

Revised Standard Version
For he that is not against us is for us.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Whosoever is not agaynste you is on youre parte.

Young's Literal Translation
for he who is not against us is for us;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For who so euer is not agaynst vs, the same is for vs.

Mace New Testament (1729)
such a one is not against us, but for us.

Simplified Cowboy Version
If someone ain't riding against us, then he is riding for us.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ Then Jesus and his followers left there and went through Galilee. Jesus did not want the people to know where they were. ³¹ He wanted to teach his followers alone. He said to them, "The Son of Man will be handed over to the control of other men, who will kill him. After three days, he will rise from death." ³² But the followers did not understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him. ³³ Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum. They went into a house, and Jesus said to them, "I heard you arguing on the way here today. What were you arguing about?" ³⁴ But the followers did not answer, because their argument on the road was about which one of them was the greatest. ³⁵ Jesus sat down and called the twelve apostles to him. He said, "Whoever wants to be the most important must make others more important than themselves. They must serve everyone else." ³⁶ Then Jesus took a small child and stood the child in front of the followers. He held the child in his arms and said, ³⁷ "Whoever accepts children like these in my name is accepting me. And anyone who accepts me is also accepting the one who sent me." ³⁸ Then John said, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of someone. He is not one of us. So we told him to stop, because he does not belong to our group." ³⁹ Jesus said, "Don't stop him. Whoever uses my name to do powerful things will not soon say bad things about me.

Bible Verse Review
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Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he that is not against us, is on our part. Many copies read, "he that is not against you, is for you"; as this man; he was not against either Christ, or his disciples; he was doing the same work, promoting the same interest, and destroying the kingdom of Satan: and therefore, though he did not follow them, and had not his commission immediately from Christ; yet, inasmuch as he was opposing the same common enemy, and did nothing against them, he ought to be reckoned as one for them, and on their side. It is a proverbial expression, signifying that all that are not against a man, and take not the part of his enemy, are to be accounted his friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. He that is not against us, is on our part. — Or rather, Whosoever is not against YOU, is for YOU. Instead of ημων, us, I would read υμων, you, on the authority of ADSHV, upwards of forty others, Syriac, Armenian, Persic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, Itala, Victor, and Opt. This reading is more consistent with the context - He followed not us-well, he is not against YOU; and he who is not against you, in such a work, may be fairly presumed to be on your side.

There is a parallel case to this mentioned in Numbers 11:26-29, which, for the elucidation of this passage, I will transcribe. "The Spirit rested upon Eldad and Medad, and they prophesied in the camp. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua, the servant of Moses, said, My lord Moses, forbid them! And Moses said unto him, Enviest THOU for MY sake? Would God, that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." The reader will easily observe that Joshua and John were of the same bigoted spirit; and that Jesus and Moses acted from the spirit of candour and benevolence. See the notes on Numbers 11:25-29.