7 Bible Verses about Things Like Snakes

Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

But when John saw that many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for baptism, he said: "O brood of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

"You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?

So John used to say to the crowd of those who were going out to be baptized by him. "You breed of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents with heads, and with them they work woe.

"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.