Matthew 12:44

New Century Version

So the spirit says, ‘I will go back to the house I left.’ When the spirit comes back, it finds the house still empty, swept clean, and made neat.

Cross References

Hosea 7:6

They burn like an oven; their hearts burn inside them. All night long their anger is low, but when morning comes, it becomes a roaring fire.

Matthew 12:29

“If anyone wants to enter a strong person’s house and steal his things, he must first tie up the strong person. Then he can steal the things from the house.

Matthew 12:43

“When an evil spirit comes out of a person, it travels through dry places, looking for a place to rest, but it doesn’t find it.

Matthew 12:45

Then the evil spirit goes out and brings seven other spirits even more evil than it is, and they go in and live there. So the person has even more trouble than before. It is the same way with the evil people who live today.”

Luke 11:25

And when it comes back, it finds that house swept clean and made neat.

John 12:6

But Judas did not really care about the poor; he said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the money box, and he often stole from it.

John 13:2

Jesus and his followers were at the evening meal. The devil had already persuaded Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to turn against Jesus.

John 13:27

As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered him. Jesus said to him, “The thing that you will do—do it quickly.”

1 Corinthians 11:19

(It is necessary to have differences among you so that it may be clear which of you really have God’s approval.)

Ephesians 2:2

Yes, in the past you lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God.

1 John 2:19

These enemies of Christ were in our fellowship, but they left us. They never really belonged to us; if they had been a part of us, they would have stayed with us. But they left, and this shows that none of them really belonged to us.

1 John 4:4

My dear children, you belong to God and have defeated them; because God’s Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world.