Mark 3:24 “If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.”

Mark 3:24

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For if a kingdome bee deuided against it selfe, that kingdome can not stand.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

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

Zechariah 11:14 2 Samuel 20:1 2 Samuel 20:6 Ezekiel 37:22 1 Corinthians 1:10–13 Judges 9:23–57

Zechariah 11:14 · BSB

Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

2 Samuel 20:1 · BSB

Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

2 Samuel 20:6 · BSB

And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us. ”

Ezekiel 37:22 · BSB

I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms.

1 Corinthians 1:10–13 · BSB

I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.

Judges 9:23–57 · BSB

God sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

25If a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

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