Matthew 12:45

New International Reader's Version

Then the evil spirit goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself. They go in and live there. That person is worse off than before. That is how it will be with the evil people of today.”

Cross References

Leviticus 13:20

The priest must look at the boil carefully. Suppose it seems to be under the skin. And suppose the hair in it has turned white. Then the priest must announce that the person is ‘unclean.’ A skin disease has broken out where the boil was.

Matthew 12:24

The Pharisees heard this. So they said, “This fellow drives out demons by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons.”

Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives there, it finds the house empty. The house has been swept clean and put in order.

Matthew 23:15

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You pretenders! You travel everywhere to win one person to your faith. Then you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You remove the smallest insect from your food. But you swallow a whole camel!

Mark 16:9

Jesus rose from the dead early on the first day of the week. He appeared first to Mary Magdalene. He had driven seven demons out of her.

Mark 5:9

Then Jesus asked the demon, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied. “There are many of us.”

Luke 11:26

Then the evil spirit goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself. They go in and live there. That person is worse off than before.”

Ephesians 6:12

Our fight is not against human beings. It is against the rulers, the authorities and the powers of this dark world. It is against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly world.

Hebrews 10:39

But we don’t belong to the people who pull back and are destroyed. We belong to the people who believe and are saved.