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 tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."

Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"

Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

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

The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary 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 brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

O generation

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

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

"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

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

He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Flee

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead -- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

General references

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.