18 Bible Verses about Snakes

Now Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, when a viper crawled out with the heat and fastened on his hand. When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer! He has escaped the sea, but Justice will not let him live." However, he shook off the creature into the fire and was not a whit the worse.read more.
The natives waited for him to swell up or drop down dead in a moment, but after waiting a long while and observing that no harm had befallen him, they changed their minds and declared he was a god.

for the power of the horses lies in their mouths ??and also in their tails (their tails are like serpents, they have heads, and it is with their heads that they hurt).

Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by serpents.

they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."

I have indeed given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions and of trampling down all the power of the Enemy; nothing shall injure you.

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

Why, which of you, when asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if he asks a fish, will you hand him a serpent?

What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish?

But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips.

So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years,

Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.