Cross references

Matthew 12:44

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.

Matthew 12:44 BSB

Matthew 12:44 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 John 4:4 (5 votes) and Psalm 81:11–12 (3 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from 1 Samuel 16 to Revelation 13.

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Which verses does Matthew 12:44 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 1 John 4:45 votes

    You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

  2. But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

  3. And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

  4. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

  5. For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

  6. And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain. He who has an ear, let him hear:

  7. Hosea 7:62 votes

    For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

  8. Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

  9. The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. …

  10. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.

  11. John 12:62 votes
  12. John 13:22 votes
  13. John 13:272 votes

Which verses point to Matthew 12:44?

The 10 strongest of 16.