Matthew 23:33

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You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

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  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
  • Luke 3:7 : 7 So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
  • Ps 58:3-5 : 3 The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born. 4 Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, 5 that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake charmer.
  • Isa 57:3-4 : 3 But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes! 4 At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars,
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
  • Matt 21:34-35 : 34 When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop. 35 But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
  • Matt 23:13-15 : 13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in. 15 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

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  • Luke 3:7-9
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    7So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

    8Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Matt 3:7-8
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    7But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

    8Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

  • Matt 23:34
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    34“For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

  • Matt 23:31-32
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    31By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

    32Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

  • Matt 12:33-34
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    33Trees and Their Fruit“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

    34Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

  • Matt 23:36
    72%

    36I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!

  • Jer 8:17
    72%

    17The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”

  • Matt 23:15
    72%

    15“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

  • Luke 13:27-28
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    71%

    27But he will reply,‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’

    28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.

  • Matt 13:42
    71%

    42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Matt 23:13
    71%

    13“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

  • Matt 10:15-17
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    15I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

    16Persecution of Disciples“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

    17Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

  • Matt 13:50
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    50and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Matt 23:24-25
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    69%

    24Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

    25“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

  • Matt 23:27-29
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    27“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

    28In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

  • Luke 11:47
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    47Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!

  • Luke 10:14-15
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    14But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you!

    15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

  • Matt 3:10
    68%

    10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Matt 25:41
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    41“Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

  • Matt 12:37
    68%

    37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

  • Matt 15:7
    67%

    7Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

  • Isa 33:11
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    11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

  • Mark 3:23
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    23So he called them and spoke to them in parables:“How can Satan cast out Satan?

  • Luke 13:5
    67%

    5No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”

  • Matt 5:20
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    20For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

  • Matt 25:30
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    30And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • Matt 11:22
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    22But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

  • Matt 8:12
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    12but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

  • Amos 9:3
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    3Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

  • Luke 11:44
    66%

    44Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

  • Matt 23:38
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    38Look, your house is left to you desolate!

  • Luke 7:31
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    31“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

  • Luke 6:26
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    26“Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

  • Luke 13:31
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    31Going to Jerusalem At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus,“Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”