Matthew 3:7

God's Word

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You poisonous snakes! Who showed you how to flee from God’s coming anger?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. I will make your descendants and her descendant hostile toward each other. He will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Proverbs 28:4

Those who abandon ⌞God’s⌟ teachings praise wicked people, but those who follow ⌞God’s⌟ teachings oppose wicked people.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch viper eggs and weave spiderwebs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.

Jeremiah 51:6

Run away from Babylon! Run for your lives! You shouldn’t die because of Babylon’s crimes. This is the time for the vengeance of the Lord. He will pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done.

Jeremiah 6:10

Whom can I speak to? Whom can I give a warning to? Who will listen? Their ears are plugged, and they aren’t able to pay attention. When the Lord speaks his word to them, they show contempt for it and object to it.

Matthew 12:24

When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man can force demons out of people only with the help of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons.”

Matthew 12:34

You poisonous snakes! How can you evil people say anything good? Your mouth says what comes from inside you.

Matthew 15:12

Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you realize that when the Pharisees heard your statement they were offended?”

Matthew 16:1

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus. So they asked him to show them a miraculous sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:6

Jesus said to them, “Be careful! Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went away and planned to trap Jesus into saying the wrong thing.

Matthew 22:23

On that day some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Jesus. They asked him,

Matthew 22:34

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

Matthew 23:33

“You snakes! You poisonous snakes! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

Matthew 5:20

I can guarantee that unless you live a life that has God’s approval and do it more faithfully than the experts in Moses’ Teachings and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 12:13

The leaders sent some of the Pharisees and some of Herod’s followers to Jesus. They wanted to trap him into saying the wrong thing.

Mark 12:18

Some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Jesus. They asked him,

Mark 8:15

Jesus warned them, “Be careful! Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who love money, heard all this and were making sarcastic remarks about him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood up and prayed, ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people! I’m not a robber or a dishonest person. I haven’t committed adultery. I’m not even like this tax collector.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and the experts in Moses’ Teachings rejected God’s plan for them. They refused to be baptized.

John 1:24

Some of those who had been sent were Pharisees.

John 8:44

You come from your father, the devil, and you desire to do what your father wants you to do. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He has never been truthful. He doesn’t know what the truth is. Whenever he tells a lie, he’s doing what comes naturally to him. He’s a liar and the father of lies.

John 9:40

Some Pharisees who were with Jesus heard this. So they asked him, “Do you think we’re blind?”

Acts 15:5

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “People who are not Jewish must be circumcised and ordered to follow Moses’ Teachings.”

Acts 20:31

So be alert! Remember that I instructed each of you for three years, day and night, at times with tears in my eyes.

Acts 26:5

They’ve known me for a long time and can testify, if they’re willing, that I followed the strictest party of our religion. They know that I lived my life as a Pharisee.

Acts 5:17

The chief priest and the whole party of the Sadducees who were with him were extremely jealous. So they took action

Romans 1:18

God’s anger is revealed from heaven against every ungodly and immoral thing people do as they try to suppress the truth by their immoral living.

Romans 5:9

Since Christ’s blood has now given us God’s approval, we are even more certain that Christ will save us from God’s anger.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for his Son to come from heaven. His Son is Jesus, whom he brought back to life. Jesus is the one who rescues us from ⌞God’s⌟ coming anger.

Hebrews 11:7

Faith led Noah to listen when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family. Through faith Noah condemned the world and received God’s approval that comes through faith.

Hebrews 6:18

God did this so that we would be encouraged. God cannot lie when he takes an oath or makes a promise. These two things can never be changed. Those of us who have taken refuge in him hold on to the confidence we have been given.

1 John 3:10

This is the way God’s children are distinguished from the devil’s children. Everyone who doesn’t do what is right or love other believers isn’t God’s child.