Matthew 12:45

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”

Cross References

Leviticus 13:20

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

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard it they said, “It is only by Be-elzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”

Matthew 12:44

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

Matthew 17:21

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

Mark 16:9

Now when 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

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

Luke 11:26

Then he goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

Ephesians 6:12

For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.