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

I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

They hatch viper’s eggs
and weave spider’s webs.
Whoever eats their eggs will die;
crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

and said, “You son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all fraud, enemy of all righteousness! Won’t you ever stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.

To flee

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

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

General references

Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him,