Matthew 12:44

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Hosea 7:6

For they are kindled like an oven; their heart burns within them; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Matthew 12:29

Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man? Then indeed the house can be plundered.

Matthew 12:43

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none.

Matthew 12:45

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.”

Luke 11:25

When it returns, it finds it swept and put in order.

John 12:6

(He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)

John 13:2

The devil had already decided that Judas son of Simon Iscariot would betray Jesus. And during supper

John 13:27

After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “Do quickly what you are going to do.”

1 Corinthians 11:19

Indeed, there have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.

1 John 4:4

Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.