Matthew 12:43-45

Good News Translation

The Return of the Evil Spirit^(A)

⁴³ “When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one, ⁴⁴ it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.’ So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up. ⁴⁵ Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day.”