Matthew 23:33

Modern English Version

“You serpents! You generation of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Isaiah 20:6

So the inhabitants of this coastland shall say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And how shall we escape?’ ”

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who has warned you to escape from the wrath to come?

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ shall be in danger of the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

Luke 3:7

Then he said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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. When he lies, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severe a punishment do you suppose he deserves, who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded the blood of the covenant that sanctified him to be a common thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused Him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven.

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was cast out, that ancient serpent called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.