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

General references

Proverbs 27:12

Bible References

The pharisees

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not cast out demons but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.

Then his disciples came and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this word?

Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and keep yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Then the Pharisees left and took counsel how they might entangle him in his word.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.

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

And he commanded them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to catch him in his words.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

And those who were sent were of the Pharisees.

Then the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees came, and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said unto him, Are we blind also?

And as they spoke unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

Then the prince of the priests rose up, and all those that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with jealousy

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most perfect sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

O generation

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

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

and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; that seed shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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

But come here, ye sons of the sorceress, generation of the adulterer and the whore.

They hatch cockatrice' eggs and weave the spider's web; whosoever shall eat of their eggs shall die, and if they should squeeze them, a viper shall come out.

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

Ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye desire to 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.

In this the sons of God are manifest, and the sons of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness and that loves not his brother is not of God.

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

Flee

Then much more now justified in his blood, we shall be saved from wrath by him.

and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

who shall be punished with eternal destruction by the presence of the Lord and by the glory of his power,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that is seated upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;

General references

A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.