Matthew 12:43 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴³ “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ But when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it roams through dry [arid] places in search of rest, but it does not find any.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴³ But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.

Common English Bible

⁴³ “When an unclean spirit leaves a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest. But it doesn’t find any.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ Now when an unclean spirit departs from a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and he does not find it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴³ And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.

Matthew 12:43 Cross References

Job 1:7

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

Job 2:2

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

Psalm 63:1

O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Matthew 8:29

Suddenly they shouted, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Acts 8:13

Even Simon himself believed. After being baptized, he stayed constantly with Philip and was amazed when he saw the signs and great miracles that took place.

1 Peter 5:8

Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.