Matthew 12:43
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
In context
41 The men of Nineveh will stand 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 hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
43 When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.
45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
Matthew 12:43 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
- KJV King James Version
- When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
- WEB World English Bible
- “When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find [it].
- WBS Webster Bible
- When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and he findeth none.