Matthew 12:44 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁴ Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ 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

⁴⁴ 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)

⁴⁴ 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

⁴⁴ 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

⁴⁴ 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

⁴⁴ Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Matthew 12:44 Cross References

Hosea 7:6

For like an oven their hearts burn with intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Matthew 12:29

Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.

Matthew 12:43

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none.

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”

Luke 11:25

And when he comes he finds it swept and put in order.

John 12:6

This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.

John 13:2

And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

John 13:27

Then after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”

1 Corinthians 11:19

for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

1 John 2:19

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 it might be plain that they all are not of us.

1 John 4:4

Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.