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 tell you, that unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

which the pharisees hearing, said, "He only casts out demons by the help of Beelzebub the prince of the devils."

Whereupon his disciples came and said to Him, Dost thou know that the pharisees, when they heard this assertion, were offended at it?

and therefore when Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the pharisees and of the sadducees,

Then the pharisees went and consulted how they might insnare Him in his discourse.

But wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, nor suffer those that are entering to go in.

for the pharisees, and indeed all the Jews, do not eat till they have washed their hands thoroughly, observing the tradition of the ancients.

And therefore as He was giving them a charge, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,

And they send to Him some of the pharisees, and of the Herodians to insnare Him in his discourse:

but the pharisees indeed and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God within themselves, and were not baptized by him.---

But the Lord said unto him, ye pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness.

And the pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and derided Him.

The pharisee standing by himself prayed thus, O God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican.

Now they that were sent, were of the pharisees:

Then came the officers to the chief priests and pharisees, and they said, Why have ye not brought Him? and the officers answered,

And some of the pharisees who were present, heard these words, and said to Him, Are we blind also?

And while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the sadducees came upon them,

Then the high priest rose up, and all that were with him, (being of the sect of the sadducees,) and were filled with rage:

But there rose up, said they, some of the sect of the pharisees that believed, saying, that it was necessary to circumcise them, and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

But Paul, knowing that the one part were sadducees, and the other pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, "Brethren, I am a pharisee, the son of a pharisee: for the hope of a resurrection of the dead I am now prosecuted."

knowing me before, (if they would testify it,) that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a pharisee.

O generation

O race of vipers, how can ye speak good things, who are yourselves so wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Therefore said he to the multitudes that came to be baptised by him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Ye are of your father the devil, and are bent upon doing the lusts of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and continued not in the truth: for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh like himself, for he is a liar, and the father of such.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doth not practise righteousness, and he who loveth not his brother, is not of God:

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Flee

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

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, by the presence of the Lord and by his glorious power:

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

and said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: