Or how can anyone enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
Matthew 12:44 - The Text-Critical English New Testament Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came out.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then it says, I will go back to my house from which I came out. And when it arrives, it finds the place unoccupied, swept, put in order, and decorated. American Standard Version (1901) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Common English Bible Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the place vacant, cleaned up, and decorated. Catholic Public Domain Version Then he says, 'I will return to my house, from which I departed'. And arriving, he finds it vacant, swept clean, and decorated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. |
Or how can anyone enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it goes through waterless places seeking rest, but does not find any.
Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that person becomes worse than the first. So will it be with this evil generation also.”
(He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he was the keeper of the moneybag and would pilfer what was put into it.)
By the time supper ended, the devil had put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What yoʋ are about to do, do quickly.”
For there must be factions among you to show which of you are approved.
in which you once walked when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the realm of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
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 they went out so that it might be revealed that they do not belong to us.
You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.