Parallel Verses

Amplified

You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

A Conservative Version

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?

American Standard Version

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

An Understandable Version

You snakes! You children of snakes! How do you expect to escape being judged [and condemned] in hell?

Anderson New Testament

Serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Bible in Basic English

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

Common New Testament

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Daniel Mace New Testament

ye serpents, ye brood of vipers, how can ye escape the punishment of Gehenna?

Darby Translation

Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?

Godbey New Testament

Ye serpents, generations of vipers, how can you escape from the judgment of hell?

Goodspeed New Testament

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

John Wesley New Testament

how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Julia Smith Translation

Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?

King James 2000

You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the judgment of hell?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?

Modern King James verseion

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

ye serpents and generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell?

Moffatt New Testament

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

Montgomery New Testament

"You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?

NET Bible

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

New Heart English Bible

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of hell?

Noyes New Testament

Serpents, brood of vipers! how can ye escape the punishment of hell?

Sawyer New Testament

Serpents, offspring of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

The Emphasized Bible

Serpents! broods of vipers! how should ye flee from the judgment of gehenna?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Ye serpents, ye broods of vipers! how can ye escape from the damnation of hell?

Twentieth Century New Testament

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?

Williams New Testament

You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape a sentence to the pit!

World English Bible

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Worrell New Testament

Serpents! broods of vipers! How can ye escape the judgment of Hell?

Worsley New Testament

how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Youngs Literal Translation

'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

Themes

Church » Corruption in

eternal Death » Is called » Damnation of hell

Ecclesiasticism » Jewish, rebuked by jesus

Escape » None, from the judgments of God

Eternal » For punishments, ancient modes of hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

Eternal » Wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to

Everlasting » For punishments, ancient modes of hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

Everlasting » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to

Gehenna » Greek, the place of punishment

Hell » Gehenna

Hell » In the rv the greek word "gehenna" is translated "hell" in the following scriptures

Judgments » No escape from

Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus

Pharisees » Christ » Denounced woes against

Pharisees » Christ » Called, serpents and generation of vipers

Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to

Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Damnation of hell

Satire » Of jesus against hypocrites

Serpents » Evil men compared to

Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites

Sin » Defined » Denunciation of

Sin » No escape from the consequences of

Speech » Plainness of

Teachers » FALSE » Admonition against

the future » Punishment » Future state of the wicked » Hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

the future » Punishment future state of the wicked » Other references of Christ to

Titles and names of the wicked » Serpents

Viper » Figurative

Wicked people » Compared with » Serpents

Wicked, the, are compared to » Serpents

Words of Christ » Concerning the future state of the wicked » Other references of Christ to

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὄφις 
Ophis 
Usage: 7

γέννημα 
Gennema 
Usage: 3

of vipers
ἔχιδνα 
Echidna 
Usage: 3

πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

ye escape
φεύγω 
Pheugo 
Usage: 23

the damnation
κρίσις 
Krisis 
Usage: 21

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

32 Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins. 33 You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell? 34 “Therefore, take notice, I am sending you prophets and wise men [interpreters, teachers] and scribes [men educated in the Mosaic Law and the writings of the prophets]; some of them you will kill and even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues, and pursue and persecute from city to city,



Cross References

Matthew 3:7

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 [divine] wrath and judgment to come?

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, ‘Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!’ shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fiery hell.

Luke 3:7

So he began saying to the crowds who were coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath [of God that is] to come?

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to practice the desires [which are characteristic] 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 lies, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar and the father of lies and half-truths.

Genesis 3:15


“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed;
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”

Psalm 58:3-5


The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

Isaiah 57:3-4


“But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition],
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Matthew 21:34-35

When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit.

Matthew 23:13-15

“But woe (judgment is coming) to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven in front of people; for you do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are [in the process of] entering to do so.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape [the penalty] if we ignore such a great salvation [the gospel, the new covenant]? For it was spoken at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us and proved authentic by those who personally heard [Him speak],

Hebrews 10:29

How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who has rejected and trampled under foot the Son of God, and has considered unclean and common the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and has insulted the Spirit of grace [who imparts the unmerited favor and blessing of God]?

Hebrews 12:25

See to it that you do not refuse [to listen to] Him who is speaking [to you now]. For if those [sons of Israel] did not escape when they refused [to listen to] him who warned them on earth [revealing God’s will], how much less will we escape if we turn our backs on Him who warns from heaven?

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown down, the age-old serpent who is called the devil and Satan, he who continually deceives and seduces the entire inhabited world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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