Matthew 12:44

The spirit resolves to return and finds its former home empty, swept, and put in order.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Rev 13:8–9All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• Ps 81:11–12But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• Jude 1:4–5For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
• Matt 13:20–22What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
• Acts 5:1–3But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
• Luke 11:21–22“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.
• Hos 7:6For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
• John 13:2During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
• Matt 12:29Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
• Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• 1 Tim 6:9–10But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• John 13:27After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
• 2 Th 2:9–12even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• John 12:6Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
• Rev 13:3–4One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
• Acts 8:18–23Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
• 1 Tim 6:4–5he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

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