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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
General references
Bible References
O generation
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Matthew 3:7
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 23:33
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
John 8:44
Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:
Acts 13:10
said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of the Lord?
1 John 3:8
He that practises sin is of the devil; for from the beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil.
To flee
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.
Hebrews 6:18
that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,
General references
Matthew 3:5
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,