Matthew 12:25

World English Bible (2000)

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

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  • Matt 9:4 : 4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Ps 139:2 : 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Rev 16:19 : 19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
  • Rev 17:16-17 : 16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire. 17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
  • Isa 9:21 : 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 19:2-3 : 2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
  • Mark 2:8 : 8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
  • Mark 3:23-27 : 23 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.
  • Luke 11:17-22 : 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. 18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges. 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you. 21 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, 25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • 1 Cor 2:11 : 11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

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    17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

    18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

    19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.

    20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you.

    21 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

    22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

    23 "He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters.

    24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.'

    25 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

  • Mark 3:22-27
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    22 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

    23 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

    24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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

    26 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.

    27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

  • Matt 12:26-30
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    26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

    27 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

    28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.

    29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

    30 "He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.

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    24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."

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    51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

    52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

    53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

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    10 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

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    35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

    36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.

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    2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."

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    13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."

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    13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

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    24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

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    33 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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    44 Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

    45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."

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    4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

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    8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

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    27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

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    25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

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    12 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Matt 10:25
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    25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

  • Luke 17:21
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    21 neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."

  • Luke 12:2
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    2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

  • Luke 11:15
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    15 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."

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    6 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."

  • Matt 7:20
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    20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

  • Luke 13:35
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    35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

  • Matt 24:7
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    7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

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    17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

  • Mark 12:24
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    24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?