Ecclesiastes 4:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 4:3 : 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
  • Dan 3:16-17 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

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    8There is one alone, and there is not a sond; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

    9Two are better than one; bause they have a good reward for their labour.

    10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

    11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

  • 3Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

  • 13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

  • Job 41:16-17
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    16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

    17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

  • Mark 3:24-25
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    24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

    25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

  • 19Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

  • 29There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

  • 11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to liver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

  • 3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • 52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

  • 15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

  • 16But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

  • 24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  • 21For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

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  • 6Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

  • 22But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

  • 14Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

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    5A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

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  • 4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

  • 31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

  • 10If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

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  • 16A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

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