7 Bible Verses about Things Like Snakes

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

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?

Therefore he said to the multitudes that came out to be immersed by him: Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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.

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