Matthew 12:44

Then it says, 'I will return to the home I left.' When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.

Psalm 81:11-12

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

Hosea 7:6

They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

Matthew 12:29

How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

Matthew 13:20-22

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Luke 11:21-22

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.

John 12:6

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

John 13:2

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he should betray Jesus.

John 13:27

And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are about to do, do quickly."

Acts 5:1-3

Now a man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property.

Acts 8:18-23

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

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan's working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

1 Timothy 6:4-5

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

1 Timothy 6:9-10

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Jude 1:4-5

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:3-4

One of the beast's heads appeared to have been killed, but the lethal wound had been healed. And the whole world followed the beast in amazement;

Revelation 13:8-9

and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.

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
How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.
Luke 11:21
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.
John 13:27
And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are about to do, do quickly."
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

General references

Jeremiah 34:11
But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.
Matthew 7:27
The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!"
Matthew 22:1
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:

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