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 goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
• Heb 6:4–8For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
• Mark 5:9And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
• Heb 10:26–31For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
• 2 Pet 2:14–22Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• John 15:22–24If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
• Jude 1:10–13But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• Mark 16:9Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
• Rom 11:8–10(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
• 1 Jn 5:16–17If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
• Luke 11:49–51Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
• Matt 23:24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
• Eph 6:12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
• 1 Th 2:15–16Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
• Luke 19:41–44And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
• Matt 21:38–44But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
• Matt 23:32–39Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
• Matt 23:15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

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