Matthew 3:7

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

⁶ and were baptized by him in the Jordan River, as one by one they continued to confess their sins. ⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming? ⁸ Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance you profess,

Brood of Vipers

Wrath to Come

Coming Wrath

John

Pharisees

Sadducees

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.

Matthew 23:33

You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape a sentence to the pit!

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for the coming from heaven of His Son, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Matthew 22:23

On the same day some Sadducees, who claim that there is no resurrection, came up to Him, and asked this question:

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees!"

Matthew 16:11-12

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread, when I said, keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?"

Acts 5:17

Now the high priest took a stand, and all his friends, the party of the Sadducees; and being filled with jealousy,

Acts 23:6-9

Because Paul knew that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, he began to cry out in the council chamber, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a Pharisee's son, and now I am on trial for the hope of the resurrection of the dead."

Romans 1:18

For God's anger from heaven is being uncovered against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth;

Romans 5:9

So if we have already been brought into right standing with God by Christ's death, it is much more certain that by Him we shall be saved from God's wrath.

Matthew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man is not driving out demons except by the help of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

Matthew 15:12

Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were knocked breathless to hear what you have just said?"

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to trap Him in argument.

Matthew 22:34

Now the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, and so they had a meeting.

Matthew 23:13-28

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you bolt the doors of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to do so go in.

Mark 7:3-5

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

Mark 8:15

Then He kept warning them by saying, "Look out! Keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

Mark 12:13

Then they sent some Pharisees and Herodians to Him to trap Him in argument.

Mark 12:18

Then some Sadducees, who claim that there is no resurrection, came up to Him and asked Him this question,

Luke 3:7-9

So he used to say to the crowds that continued to come out there to be baptized by him: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

Luke 7:30

but the Pharisees and experts in the law thwarted God's purpose for themselves by refusing to be baptized by him.

Luke 11:39-44

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

Luke 16:14

Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and said this self-centered prayer, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

John 1:24

Now the messengers belonged to the party of the Pharisees;

John 7:45-49

So the officers went back to the high priests and Pharisees. The latter asked the officers, "Why have you not brought Him?"

John 8:44

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?"

Acts 4:1-2

While they were talking to the people, the high priests, the military commander of the temple, and the Sadducees came down upon them,

Acts 15:5

But some members of the Pharisaic party, who had become believers, arose and said that such converts must be circumcised and told to keep the law of Moses.

Acts 20:31

So ever be on your guard and always remember that for three years, night and day, I never ceased warning you one by one, and that with tears.

Acts 26:5

for they have known all along from the first, if they would but testify to it, that I as a Pharisee have lived by the standard of the strictest sect of our religion.

2 Thessalonians 1:9-10

These will receive the punishment of eternal destruction as exiles from the presence of the Lord and His glorious might,

Hebrews 6:18

so that by these two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge with Him may have encouragement strong enough to make us seize upon the hope that lies ahead of us.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, on being divinely warned about things not seen as yet, in reverence prepared an ark for saving his family, and by his faith condemned the world and became possessor of the uprightness that results from faith.

1 John 3:10

This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.

Revelation 6:16-17

And they said to the mountains and the rocks: "Fall on us and conceal us from the sight of Him who is seated on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,

Revelation 12:9-10

So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.