Matthew 3:7

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Summary

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

The pharisees

O generation

Flee

Revelation 6:16

Bible References

The pharisees

For I say unto you, that if your righteousness may not abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

And the Pharisees hearing, said, This man casts not out demons, except through Beelzebul the prince of the demons.

Then His disciples having come to Him say, Do you not know that the Pharisees hearing your word, were offended?

And Jesus said to them; See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then the Pharisees going forth, took counsel how they might ensnare Him in His speech.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against the people: for you do not go in, neither do you permit those coming in to enter.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they diligently wash their hands, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders.

And He commanded them, saying, See, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

And they send to Him certain ones of the Pharisees and Herodians, that they may catch Him with speech.

But the Pharisees and theologians rejected the counsel of God, against themselves, not having been baptized by him.

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees purify the outside of the cup and the plate, but the interior is full of extortion and wickedness.

And the Pharisees, being avaricious, were hearing all these things, and murmuring against Him.

The Pharisee standing was praying in these words, God, I thank thee because I am not like the rest of the men, extortioners, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican:

And those having been sent were of the Pharisees.

Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why did you not bring Him?

And those of the Pharisees being with Him heard, and said to Him, Whether are we also blind?

And they speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees rose up against them,

And the high priest and all those being with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with rage,

And certain one of those from the sect of the Pharisees having believed arose up, saying that, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

And Paul knowing that one part of them belongs to the Sadducees, and another to the Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of the Pharisees: concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am judged.

knowing me originally, if they may be willing to testify, that according to the most rigid sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

O generation

O ye generations of vipers, how are you, being evil, able to speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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

Then he said unto the multitudes coming out to be baptized by him; O generations of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

And the great dragon, the old serpent, the one called the devil, and Satan, the one deceiving the whole world, was cast out: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Flee

How much more then, having now been justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

and to await his Son out of the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus the one delivering us from the wrath to come.

who shall suffer vengeance, eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,

and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one sitting upon the throne, and the wrath of the Lamb: