18 Bible Verses about Snakes

Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, when a viper crawled out of them because of the heat and fastened on his hand. When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "This man is undoubtedly a murderer, for though he has been saved from the sea, justice will not let him live." But he only shook the creature off into the fire and was unharmed.read more.
They expected to see him swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

For the power of the horses lay in their mouths and their tails; their tails were like snakes, and they had heads with which they hurt people.

Let us not try the Lord's patience too far, as some of them did, for they were killed for it by the snakes.

they will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink poison it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."

Here I have given you the power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy. Nothing will hurt you at all.

"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?

Which of you fathers, if his son asks him for a fish will give him a snake instead?

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips,

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

But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.

He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."