Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Holman Bible
A Conservative Version
Or how can any man enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
American Standard Version
Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man ? and then he will spoil his house.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Or, how can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his belongings unless he first ties up the strong man? Only then will he be able to steal [his belongings] from his house.
Anderson New Testament
Or, how can any one enter the house of the strong man and spoil his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.
Bible in Basic English
Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.
Common New Testament
Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
Daniel Mace New Testament
besides, how could any one enter into the house of a man of might to rob him of his goods, except he first master the strong man? and then indeed he might plunder his house.
Darby Translation
Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.
Godbey New Testament
Or how is any one able to enter into the house of a strong man, and spoil his goods, unless he may first bind the strong man, and then he can spoil his house.
Goodspeed New Testament
How can anyone get into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man? After that he can plunder his house.
John Wesley New Testament
How can one enter into the strong one's house, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one?
Julia Smith Translation
Or how can any one come into the house of the strong, and plunder his goods, except be first bind the strong? and then he will plunder his house.
King James 2000
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or how can someone enter into the house of a strong [man] and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong [man]? And then he can thoroughly plunder his house.
Modern King James verseion
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, unless first he binds the strong one, and then he will plunder his house.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Either how can a man enter into a strong man's house, and violently take away his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then spoil his house?
Moffatt New Testament
Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
Montgomery New Testament
"Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.
NET Bible
How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.
New Heart English Bible
Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and carry off his possessions, unless he first bind the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
Noyes New Testament
Or how can one enter into a strong mans house, and seize upon his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then plunder his house?
Sawyer New Testament
Or how can one enter into the house of a strong man and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.
The Emphasized Bible
Or how can one enter the house of the mighty and, seize his goods, unless, first, he bind the mighty one? and, then, his house, he will plunder.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Else how can one enter into a strong man's house and plunder his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then will he plunder his goods?
Twentieth Century New Testament
How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.
Webster
Or else, how can one enter into a strong man's house, and seize his goods, except he shall first bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.
Weymouth New Testament
Again, how can any one enter the house of a strong man and carry off his goods, unless first of all he masters and secures the strong man: then he will ransack his house.
Williams New Testament
Or, how can anyone get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant? After that he can make a clean sweep of his house.
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and seize upon his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
Worsley New Testament
Or, how can any one enter into the house of a strong man, and take away his goods, unless he first overpower the strong man? and then indeed he may strip his house.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.
Themes
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » Heals a demoniac
Jesus Christ » History of » Heals a demoniac, and denounces the scribes and pharisees (in galilee)
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Heals a demoniac
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 12:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
A House Divided Cannot Stand
28 But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you. 29 How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house. 30 The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who isn't gathering with me is scattering.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 49:24
"Can they seize plunder from warriors, or can the captives of tyrants be rescued?
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he carried the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions."
Mark 3:27
No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.
Luke 11:21-22
"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own mansion, his property is safe.
1 John 3:8
The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.
1 John 4:4
Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
Revelation 12:7-10
Then a war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back.
Revelation 20:1-3
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit, with a large chain in his hand.
Revelation 20:7-9
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be freed from his prison.