Matthew 12:43-45

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Return of the Unclean Spirit

⁴³ ‘When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting-place, but it finds none. ⁴⁴ Then it says, “I will return to my house from which I came.” When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.’