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 enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; like a deaf viper that stops its ear,

They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

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

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment 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. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

and said, "Full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

To flee

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead?Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

General references

Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him,