NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 12:43–45

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43

“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.

44

Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

45

Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

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Verse 45. Seven is taken frequently, in Scripture, for an indefinite number; for several. V.

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