18 Bible Verses about Snakes

And when Paul had brought together a heap of brushwood, and laid it on the fire, a viper came out, by reason of the heat, and fastened itself on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the reptile hanging from his hand, they said to one an other: This man is certainly a murderer, whom, although he has saved himself from the sea, justice does not permit to live. Then he shook the reptile from him into the fire, and suffered no harm.read more.
But they were expecting that he would become inflamed and swollen, or would suddenly fall down dead; yet, after expecting it for a long time, and seeing no harm befall him, they changed their mind, and said he was a god.

For their power was in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails were like serpents, and had heads, and with them they do injury.

Nor let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

they shall take up serpents; and, if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and authority over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be, therefore, wise as serpents, and guileless as doves.

What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? And if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

If a son ask bread of any one of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coining wrath?

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

Serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?

their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

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

But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

And he laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whoever believes on him may not perish, but have eternal life.