For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Matthew 12:44 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then it says, I will go back to my house from which I came out. And when it arrives, it finds the place unoccupied, swept, put in order, and decorated. American Standard Version (1901) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Common English Bible Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the place vacant, cleaned up, and decorated. Catholic Public Domain Version Then he says, 'I will return to my house, from which I departed'. And arriving, he finds it vacant, swept clean, and decorated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. |
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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.
But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.
Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore saith unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest how that they all are not of us.
Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.