Matthew 12:44 Cross References - Moffatt

⁴⁴ 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.

²⁹ 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.

²⁰ As for him who is sown 'on stony soil,' that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm; ²¹ he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled. ²² As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

²¹ When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed; ²² but when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he seizes the panoply on which he relied and divides up the spoil.

⁶ (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.)

² so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

²⁷ and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."

¹ But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property, ² appropriated some of the purchase-money with the connivance of his wife; he only brought part of it to lay before the feet of the apostles. ³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

¹⁸ Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money, ¹⁹ saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit." ²⁰ Peter said to him, "Death to you and your money, for dreaming you could buy the gift of God! ²¹ You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God. ²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask God whether you cannot be forgiven for your heart's purpose. ²³ For I see you are a bitter poison and a pack of evil."

¹⁹ There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

² 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

⁹ that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood, ¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

⁴ is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations, ⁵ and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

⁹ 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. ¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

¹⁹ 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.

⁴ 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.

⁴ 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. ⁵ Now I want to remind you of what you are perfectly aware, that though the Lord once brought the People safe out of Egypt, he subsequently destroyed the unbelieving,

³ 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, ⁴ worshipping the dragon for having given authority to the Beast, and worshipping the Beast with the cry, "Who is like the Beast? Who can fight with him?"

⁸ 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. ⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen: —