Matthew 3:7

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But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You vipers' brood! Who warned you to run away from the coming judgment?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Proverbs 28:4

People who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law fight against them.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch viper's eggs, and weave a spider's web. If you eat their eggs you'll die; if you crush their eggs you'll only hatch snakes.

Jeremiah 51:6

Escape from Babylon! Run for your lives! Don't get caught up in her punishment and die, for this is the time when the Lord pays her back for her sins.

Jeremiah 6:10

Who can I give this warning to? Who's going to listen to me? Can't you see that they refuse to listen? They can't hear what I'm saying. See how offensive the Lord's message is to them. They don't like it at all.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard this, they replied, “This man can only throw out demons through the power of Beelzebub, the chief of demons!”

Matthew 12:34

You viper's brood, how can you who are evil say anything good? For your mouth simply says what your mind is busy thinking about.

Matthew 15:12

Then Jesus' disciples came to him and said, “You do realize that the Pharisees were offended by what you said.”

Matthew 16:1

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, demanding that he show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:6

“Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,” Jesus told them.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees left and met together to plot how they could trap him by what he said.

Matthew 22:23

Later the same day some Sadducees came to see him. (They are the ones who say there's no resurrection.)

Matthew 22:34

When the Pharisees heard that he'd left the Sadducees speechless, they got together and went to ask some more questions.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Matthew 5:20

I tell you, unless your moral rightness is more than that of the religious teachers and the Pharisees, you can never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 12:13

Later they sent some Pharisees with some of Herod's supporters to Jesus in an attempt to catch him out by what he said.

Mark 12:18

Then the Sadducees, who deny the resurrection, came and asked a question:

Mark 8:15

“Watch out—beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod!” he warned them.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard what Jesus said and laughed at him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood up and prayed to himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—cheats, criminals, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and the religious teachers rejected what God wanted them to do, for they had refused to be baptized by John.

John 1:24

The priests and Levites sent by the Pharisees

John 8:44

Your father is the devil, and you love to follow your father's evil desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. He never stood for the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies he reveals his true character, for he's a liar and the father of lies.

John 9:40

Some Pharisees who were there with Jesus asked him, “We're not blind too, are we?”

Acts 15:5

But they were opposed by some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisee faction. They said, “These converts have to be circumcised, and instructed to observe the law of Moses.”

Acts 20:31

So watch out! Don't forget that for three years I went on instructing all of you night and day, often crying over you.

Acts 26:5

They have known me for a long time and can verify, if they choose to, that I have followed the religious school that observes our faith in the strictest way—I lived as a Pharisee.

Acts 5:17

However, the high priest and those with him (who were Sadducees) became very jealous and decided to intervene.

Romans 1:18

God's hostility is revealed from heaven against those who are godless and who are not morally right, those who suppress the truth through the evil that they do.

Romans 5:9

Now that we are made right by his death, we can be absolutely sure we'll be saved by him from the coming judgment.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

as you look forward to the coming of his Son from heaven—Jesus, the one God raised from the dead, who will save us from the judgment to come.

Hebrews 11:7

Noah trusted God, and was warned by him about things that had never happened before. Because Noah paid serious attention to what God said, he constructed an ark to save his family. By trusting God, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and received the reward of being set right by God.

Hebrews 6:18

So by these two actions that can't be changed, and since it's impossible for God to lie, we can have total confidence, having run for safety to take hold of the hope God presented to us.

1 John 3:10

This is how God's children and the devil's children can be distinguished: all those who don't do what's right don't belong to God, nor do those who don't love their fellow Christians.