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And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
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But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.
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When the strong [man] fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace:
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but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
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He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
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The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out.
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And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.
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Then goeth he, and taketh [to him] seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.
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And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.
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But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.