Matthew 12:45

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

Cross-references · 20

• Luke 11:26Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
• Heb 6:4–8For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• Mark 5:9He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
• Heb 10:26–31For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
• 2 Pet 2:14–22having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• John 15:22–24If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
• Jude 1:10–13But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• Mark 16:9Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
• Rom 11:8–10According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• 1 Jn 5:16–17If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
• Luke 11:49–51Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
• Matt 23:24You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
• Eph 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
• Luke 19:41–44When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
• Matt 21:38–44But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
• Matt 23:32–39Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
• Matt 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

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