Matthew 12:45

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”

Cross References

Leviticus 13:20

The priest shall make an examination, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; this is a leprous disease, broken out in the boil.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that this fellow casts out the demons.”

Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Matthew 17:21

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Mark 16:9

[Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Mark 5:9

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

Luke 11:26

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first.”

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved.