27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

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27 But no one can go into a strong man’s house and ransack his household goods right and left and seize them as plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may [thoroughly] plunder his house.(A)

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27 Satan must be bound before his demons are cast out,[a] just as a strong man must be tied up before his house can be ransacked and his property robbed.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:27 cast out, implied.