Matthew 3:7

New English Translation

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.

Jeremiah 51:6

Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard this they said, “He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons!”

Matthew 12:34

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Matthew 15:12

Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”

Matthew 16:1

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:6

“Watch out,” Jesus said to them, “beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

Matthew 22:23

The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

Matthew 22:34

Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

Matthew 5:20

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 12:13

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

Mark 12:18

Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

Mark 8:15

And Jesus ordered them, “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.

Luke 7:30

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

John 1:24

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

John 8:44

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

Acts 15:5

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

Acts 20:31

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Acts 26:5

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

Acts 5:17

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Romans 1:18

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

Romans 5:9

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 6:18

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.