Matthew 12:45

The spirit returns with seven worse, leaving the person worse off, as it will be for this evil generation.

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• Luke 11:26Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.”
• Heb 6:4–8It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
• Mark 5:9“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
• Heb 10:26–31If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
• 2 Pet 2:14–22Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
• John 15:22–24If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
• Jude 1:10–13These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
• Mark 16:9Early on the first day of the week, after Jesus had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons.
• Rom 11:8–10as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• 1 Jn 5:16–17If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
• Luke 11:49–51Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
• Matt 23:24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
• Eph 6:12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
• Luke 19:41–44As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
• Matt 21:38–44But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
• Matt 23:32–39Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
• Matt 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

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