22. But when someone stronger attacks, he is overpowered. The attacker takes away the armor the man had trusted in. Then he divides up what he has stolen.
23. "Anyone who is not with me is against me. Anyone who does not gather sheep with me scatters them.
24. "What happens when an evil spirit comes out of a man? It goes through dry areas looking for a place to rest. But it doesn't find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.'
25. When it arrives there, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
26. Then the evil spirit goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself. They go in and live there. That man is worse off than before."