Return of an Unclean Spirit

Matthew 12

43 "When g the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through h waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 44 Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and i the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this j evil generation."

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 12:43 - 45
    When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.
    Luke 11:24 - 26
    "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 63:1
    O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
    Jeremiah 2:6
    They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 12:43 - 45
    When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.
    Luke 11:24 - 26
    "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'
  4. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:20 - 22
    For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
    John 5:14
    Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 12:39
    But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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