Matthew 23:33
Good News Translation
You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

New Revised Standard Version
You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?

Contemporary English Version
You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell?

New American Bible
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?

Douay-Rheims Bible
You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

serpents.

Matthew 3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 21:34,35 And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. . . .

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Psalm 58:3-5 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things. . . .

Isaiah 57:3,4 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot. . . .

Luke 3:7 He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

how.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

Hebrews 10:29 How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? 34Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.…
Cross References
Isaiah 20:6
And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?

Matthew 3:7
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 5:22
But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 23:32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Luke 3:7
He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 23:32
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