Matthew 12:44

New American Bible - revised edition

Then it says, ‘I will return to my home from which I came.’ But upon returning, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order.

Cross References

Hosea 7:6

For they draw near in ambush with their hearts like an oven. All the night their anger sleeps; in the morning it flares like a blazing fire.

Matthew 12:29

How can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

Matthew 12:43

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person it roams through arid regions searching for rest but finds none.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings back with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they move in and dwell there; and the last condition of that person is worse than the first. Thus it will be with this evil generation.” The True Family of Jesus.

Luke 11:25

But upon returning, it finds it swept clean and put in order.

John 12:6

He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.

John 13:2

The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper,

John 13:27

After he took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”

1 Corinthians 11:19

there have to be factions among you in order that [also] those who are approved among you may become known.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.

1 John 4:4

You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.