Luke 3:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

O generation

To flee

1 Thessalonians 1:10

Hebrews 6:18

General references

Matthew 3:5

Bible References

O generation

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;

He shall bruise you on the head,

And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

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

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of

hell?

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

and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

To flee

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

General references

Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan;