Luke 11:22
but when a stronger than he comes, after defeating him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted, and divides his booty.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21When the fully armed strong man guards his palace, the things possessed by him are in peace,
23He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
Cross References
Isaiah 27:1In that day LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercessi
Colossians 2:15Having stripped the principal offices and the positions of authority, he exposed them openly, having triumphed over them by it.
1 John 4:4Ye are of God, little children, and ye have overcome them, because greater is he in you than he in the world.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:15-27
Christ Accused of Leaguing with Satan; Watchfulness Inculcated. 14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. 15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. 16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.… Read the whole commentary →