Matthew 12:44

A Conservative Version

Then it says, I will return into my house from where I came out. And when it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Cross References

1 John 4:4

Ye are of God, little children, and ye have overcome them, because greater is he in you than he in the world.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but--so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

Ephesians 2:2

in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

John 13:27

And after the morsel, then Satan entered into that man. Jesus therefore says to him, What thou do, do more quickly.

John 13:2

And supper having occurred, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he would betray him,

John 12:6

Now he said this, not because it was a concern to him about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the purse and removed things that were put in.

Matthew 12:29

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.

Hosea 7:6

For they have made their heart ready like an oven, while they lay in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Matthew 12:43

But when the unclean spirit goes forth out of the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finds it not.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.

Luke 11:25

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