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Matthew 23:33

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[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Ye serpents {G3789}, ye generation {G1081} of vipers {G2191}, how {G4459} can ye {G5343} escape {G575} the damnation {G2920} of hell {G1067}?

"You snakes! Sons of snakes! How can you escape being condemned to Gei Hinnom?

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 3:7 (10 votes)

    ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

  • Matthew 12:34 (8 votes)

    O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

  • John 8:44 (6 votes)

    Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  • Matthew 5:22 (6 votes)

    But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

  • Luke 3:7 (6 votes)

    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?

  • Genesis 3:15 (5 votes)

    And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

  • Matthew 21:34 (5 votes)

    And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.