14 Bible Verses about Things Like Snakes

They will lick the dust like a serpent,
Like reptiles of the earth.
They will come trembling out of their fortresses;
To the Lord our God they will come in dread
And they will be afraid before You.

“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,
A horned snake in the path,
That bites the horse’s heels,
So that his rider falls backward.

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of cobras.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;
For they move on like an army
And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who 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 and have heads, and with them they do harm.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.