Mark 3:24

Lexham English Bible

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If a kingdom

King James Version (1611)
And if a kingdome be diuided against it selfe, that kingdome cannot stand.

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

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

New American Standard Bible
"And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

New Century Version
A kingdom that is divided cannot continue,

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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

Berean Standard Bible
If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

Contemporary English Version
A nation whose people fight each other won't last very long.

Complete Jewish Bible
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom can't survive;

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

Easy-to-Read Version
A kingdom that fights against itself will not survive.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For if a kingdome bee deuided against it selfe, that kingdome can not stand.

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

Good News Translation
If a country divides itself into groups which fight each other, that country will fall apart.

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

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

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

Hebrew Names Version
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.

Etheridge Translation
For if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot stand;

Murdock Translation
For if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yf a realme be deuided agaynst it selfe, that realme can not endure.

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

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Weymouth's New Testament
For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if a rewme be departid ayens it silf, thilke rewme may not stonde.

Update Bible Version
And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom can't stand.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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

New King James Version
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

New Living Translation
"A kingdom divided by civil war will collapse.

New Life Bible
A nation cannot last if it is divided against itself.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For yf a realme be devided ageynste it silfe that realme cannot endure.

Young's Literal Translation
and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And yf a realme be deuyded in it self, how can it endure?

Mace New Testament (1729)
if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom cannot last.

Simplified Cowboy Version
A cowboy divided against himself ropes no cattle.

Contextual Overview

²² And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul!" and "By the ruler of the demons he expels the demons!" ²³ And he called them to himself and was speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan expel Satan? ²⁴ And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. ²⁵ And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. ²⁶ And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but is at an end! ²⁷ But no one is able to enter into the house of a strong man and plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man, and then he can thoroughly plunder his house. ²⁸ "Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme. ²⁹ But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit does not have forgiveness forever, but is guilty of an eternal sin"— ³⁰ because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 9:23-57, Judges 12:1-6, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Samuel 20:6, 1 Kings 12:16-20, Isaiah 9:20, Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 19:2, Isaiah 19:3, Ezekiel 37:22, Zechariah 11:14, John 17:21, 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, Ephesians 4:3-6

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

Genesis 3:8
Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:9
And Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband shall be your desire. And he shall rule over you."

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat, the ground shall be cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18
And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:22
And Yahweh God said, "Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

Exodus 25:2
"Speak to the Israelites, and let them bring to me a contribution. You will receive my contribution from every man whose heart prompts him.

Numbers 22:23
The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road.

Joshua 5:13
And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up, and he saw a man standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said, "Are you with us, or with our adversaries?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a kingdom be divided against itself,.... Any of the kingdoms of this world, and the kingdom of "Satan":

that kingdom cannot stand: not long; its internal broils and divisions will, soon bring it to desolation; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the scribes ... - See the notes at Matthew 12:24-32. The occasion of their saying this was, that he had healed a man possessed with a devil. The scribes, who came from Jerusalem to watch his conduct, charged him with having made a compact or agreement with the prince of the devils.