Luke 3:7 - Tree of Life Version

⁷ Therefore John was saying to the crowds that came out to be immersed by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ So he said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, You offspring of vipers! Who secretly warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Common English Bible

⁷ Then John said to the crowds who came to be baptized by him, “You children of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the angry judgment that is coming soon?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Therefore, he said to the crowd that went out in order to be baptized by him: "You progeny of vipers! Who told you to flee from the approaching wrath?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 3:7 Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put animosity between you and the woman— between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web— whoever eats their eggs dies; crack one open, a viper breaks out.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you who are evil say anything good? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 23:33

O snakes, you brood of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?

Matthew 3:6

Confessing their sins, they were being immersed by him in the Jordan River.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O you, full of all deceit and trickery, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness—will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Yeshua, the One delivering us from the coming wrath.

Hebrews 6:18

So by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

1 John 3:8

The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. Ben-Elohim appeared for this purpose—to destroy the works of the devil.