Matthew 12:45

Free Bible Version

Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits even more evil than it is, and it enters and lives there. So the person ends up worse than they were at the beginning. That's the way it will be with this evil generation.”

Cross References

Leviticus 13:20

The priest shall inspect it, and if it seems to be more than something on the surface, and if the hair there has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has infected the boil.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard this, they replied, “This man can only throw out demons through the power of Beelzebub, the chief of demons!”

Matthew 12:44

So it says, ‘I'll go back to the place I left,’ and when it returns it finds the place empty, all clean and tidy.

Matthew 17:21

Matthew 23:15

What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when you do, you make him twice a son of Gehenna as you are yourselves.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides—you strain what you drink to keep out a fly but then you swallow a camel!

Mark 16:9

When Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week, he appeared first of all to Mary Magdalene, from whom he'd driven out seven demons.

Mark 5:9

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion, because we are many!” he replied.

Luke 11:26

So it goes and finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. In the end that man is worse off than before.”

Ephesians 6:12

We're not fighting against human forces, but against supernatural rulers and powers, the dark lords of this world, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Hebrews 10:39

But we're not the kind of people who draw back and end up being lost. We are those who trust in God to save us.