Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so ¹  the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

Mt 12:24; Mt 21:38-44; Mt 23:15; Mt 23:32-39,24,34; Mr 5:9; Mr 16:9; Lu 11:26; Lu 11:49-51; Lu 19:41-44; Joh 15:22-24; Ro 11:8-10; Eph 6:12; 1Th 2:15,16; Heb 6:4-8; Heb 10:26-31,39; 2Pe 2:14-22; 1Jo 5:16,17; Jude 1:10-13

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.