'Snakes' in the Bible

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”

So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing will ever harm you.

Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.