Mark 3:24

Simplified Cowboy Version

A cowboy divided against himself ropes no cattle.

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.

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

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.

Contextual Overview

²²The religious experts came all the way from Jerusalem, but they said he was possessed by the devil and that is how he was able to cast out the demons. ²³So Jesus called them all around and told them stories. "How can the devil cast out the devil? ²⁴A cowboy divided against himself ropes no cattle. ²⁵A person against himself has come to his end. ²⁶If Satan double-crosses himself, he can't survive. ²⁷But no one can steal a ranch's cattle unless he first ties up the cowboy watching over it. Then they can rustle anything they find. ²⁸"I'm telling you straight, every wrong can be forgiven, ²⁹but anyone who rejects the love of God and attributes the Holy Spirit's work to the devil, that person's sin will not be forgiven." ³⁰He said all this because they were accusing him of being possessed by a demon.

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

John 14:6
Jesus said, "I am the Trail, the Truth, and the Life. No one gets to God without going through me.

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.