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 to you that unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

But when the Pharisees heard, they said, This one does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

Then His disciples came and said to Him, Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?

And Jesus said to them, Take heed, and beware the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Then the Pharisees left and took counsel that they might entangle Him in words.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they immerse their hands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

And He charged them, saying, Take heed! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

And they sent certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to Him, to catch Him in His words.

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

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness.

And being money-lovers, all the Pharisees also heard all these things. And they derided Him.

The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

And they who were sent were from the Pharisees.

Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, Why have you not brought him?

And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we also blind?

And as they spoke to the people, the priests, and the temple commander, and the Sadducees came on them,

And rising up, the high priest, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with anger,

But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees, having believed, rose up, saying, It was necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.

But when Paul saw that the one part were Sadducees and the other part Pharisees, he cried out in the sanhedrin, Men! Brothers! I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee! I am being judged because of the hope and resurrection of the dead.

who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

O generation

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide 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 children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

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

Flee

Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from the dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

so that by two immutable things, in which it was 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 they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;

General references

A sensible one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.