18 Bible Verses about Snakes

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live." However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.read more.
They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but after they had waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.

they will pick up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Behold, I have given you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you.

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?

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 flee from the wrath to come?

You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to practice deceit." "The poison of asps is under their lips."

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole worldhe was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who 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 in him may have eternal life.