1 Samuel 19:6

6And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, a“As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”

Hosea 6:4

4 What shall I do with you, bO cEphraim?
What shall I do with you, O dJudah?
Your love is elike a morning cloud,
flike the dew that goes early away.

Matthew 12:43-45

Return of an Unclean Spirit

43When gthe unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through hwaterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 44Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and ithe last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this jevil generation.”

Luke 11:24-26

Return of an Unclean Spirit

24 kWhen the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through lwaterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And mthe last state of that person is worse than the first.”

2 Peter 2:20-22

20For if, nafter they have escaped the defilements of the world othrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, pthe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21For qit would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from rthe holy commandment delivered to them. 22What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The sdog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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