Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

Psalm 81:11-12

“But My people did not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not obey Me.

Hosea 7:6

For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their plotting;
Their anger smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Matthew 12:29

Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Matthew 13:20-22

The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

Luke 11:21-22

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.

John 12:6

Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

John 13:2

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,

John 13:27

After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

Acts 5:1-3

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,

Acts 8:18-23

Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

1 Timothy 6:4-5

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

Jude 1:4-5

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:3-4

I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast;

Revelation 13:8-9

All 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 slain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Bible References

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Matthew 12:29
Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
Luke 11:21
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.
John 13:27
After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

General references

Jeremiah 34:11
But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.
Matthew 7:27
The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
Matthew 22:1
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,