Mark 3:27 Cross References - Mace

²⁷ no one can enter into a strong man's house, and plunder his goods, unless the man be first secur'd.

²⁹ besides, how could any one enter into the house of a man of might to rob him of his goods, except he first master the strong man? and then indeed he might plunder his house.

¹⁷ At length the seventy return'd with great joy, saying, Lord, even the demons have been made subject to us by virtue of your name. ¹⁸ upon which he said to them, I beheld satan falling, like lightning, from heaven. ¹⁹ I have authoriz'd you to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and triumph over all the power of the enemy; so that nothing shall be capable of doing you any mischief. ²⁰ however, let not this be the matter of your rejoicing, that the spirits are subject to you: but rejoice, that you have a title to the joys of heaven.

²¹ when a man that is stout and well arm'd guards his palace, his possessions are safe. ²² but if a stronger than he should assault, and overcome him, he will strip him of all his furniture on which he relyed, and divide the plunder. ²³ He that does not join with me, is against me: and he that is not active for me, is a deserter.

³¹ now is this world condemn'd: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

²⁰ the God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet. the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, place your strength in the transcendent power of the Lord. ¹¹ put on the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits. ¹³ wherefore invest yourselves with the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to withstand in the difficult day, and having overcome all to maintain your ground.

¹⁵ and having divested principalitys and powers, he made them an example of obedience, and caus'd them to triumph in Christ.

¹⁴ Since then the children were made subject to a state of mortality, so he himself likewise was subject to the same condition: that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

⁸ he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning. for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁴ ye are of God, my dear children, and you have overcome them: because he that is in you, is superior to him that is in the world.

⁷ Then there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; on the other side fought the dragon with his angels: but these were defeated, ⁸ they lost their place in heaven: ⁹ the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him.

¹ Afterwards I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, with a great chain in his hand. ² and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years, ³ then cast him into the bottomless pit, there shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should seduce the nations no more, till the thousand years should he fulfilled: and after that, he was to be loosed for a short time.