Matthew 23:33

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Summary

Matthew 23:33

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

Serpents

How

General references

Luke 3:20

Galatians 5:9

Bible References

Serpents

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

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

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

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the descendants of the adulterer and the harlot.

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

How

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Of how much worse punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done insult unto the Spirit of grace?

See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:

General references

Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.