18 Bible Verses about Snakes

And Paul having collected a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is undoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not permitted to live. Then shaking off the creature into the fire he suffered no harm;read more.
but they expected that he would swell up, or suddenly fall down dead. And waiting a long time, and seeing nothing extraordinary happen to him, they thought differently, and said, He is a god.

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like serpents, having heads, and with them they did injury.

Neither let us try Christ, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.

they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly [poison] it shall not hurt them; and they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall be well.

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

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

Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone? or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent?

And what father is there of you, who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks also for a fish, will for a fish give him a serpent?

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come for the baptism, he said to them; Offspring of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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

Serpents, offspring of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

And the great dragon, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, and who deceives all the world, was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast [to the earth] with him.

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

And he took the dragon, which is the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; that every one believing in him may have eternal life.