If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Parallel Translations
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If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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Or yf a housse be devided agaynste it silfe that housse cannot continue:
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Or if a house bee deuided against it selfe, that house can not continue.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Mark 3:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- James 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
- Psalms 133:1 See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
- Genesis 37:4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
- Genesis 13:7-8 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time. Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 25 And if a house be divided against itself,…
25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Ver. 25. {See Trapp on "Mat 12:25"} {See Trapp on "Mat 12:26"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if Satan rise up against himself,.... As he…
And if Satan rise up against himself,.... As he must do in such a case as this, if devils are cast out by Beelzebub, the prince of devils:
and be divided; one devil against another, as the above calumny supposes;
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he cannot stand, but hath an end: his kingdom cannot stand long, but must soon come to an end; his power and authority will soon be destroyed, both over his own species, and among men; See Gill on Mat 12:26.
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