Then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,' and when it comes it finds the house vacant, clean, and all in order.

Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

As for him who is sown 'on stony soil,' that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm;

When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed;

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."

But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property,

Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money,

There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.

My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

One of his heads looked as if it had been slain and killed, but the deadly wound was healed, and the whole earth went after him in wonder,

and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

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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.

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Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed;
and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."
in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience
My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

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The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, and down it fell ??with a mighty crash."
Then Jesus again addressed them in parables.
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