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Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him,
insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
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And all the people were amazed, and
said, Is not this the son of David?
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But when the Pharisees heard
it,
they said, This
fellow
doth
not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
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And Jesus knew their thoughts,
and said unto them,
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city
or house divided against itself shall not stand:
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And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against
himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
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And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do
your children cast
them
out? therefore they shall be your judges.
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But if I cast out devils by the
Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
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Or else how can one enter into a
strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil
his house.
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He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad.
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Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but
the blasphemy
against
the
Holy
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
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And whosoever speaketh
a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the
world
to come.
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Either
make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the
tree is known by
his
fruit.
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O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?
for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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A good man out of the good treasure
of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil
things.
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But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment.
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For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou
shalt be condemned.
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Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a
sign from thee.
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But he answered and said unto them,
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh
after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
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For as Jonas
was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
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The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation,
and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than
Jonas
is
here.
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The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall
condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and, behold, a greater than Solomon
is
here.
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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he
walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
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Then he saith, I will return into my
house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth
it
empty, swept, and garnished.
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Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they
enter in and dwell there: and the last
state
of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be
also unto this wicked generation.
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