43"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.


In Context

40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.

42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here.

43 "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

44 Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.

45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation."

Matthew 12:43 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:43And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:43But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:43But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:43But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and he findeth none.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:43But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:43'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.